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Message:: [QUOTE="EyeEatWheaties, post: 1103513, member: 26972"]LD - if you stop back to this thread. I have been doing my due diligence and research on those plaques.  The information below will help with the various sizes.  I have more info if you want it...Lots of info here: The seminal moment came either in Brenner's studio at 114 E. 28th Street or, in an alternative version cited by medallic art expert D. Wayne Johnson of Torrington, Conn., at Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home. While Roosevelt was sitting for the Panama medal, he and Brenner hit it off. Considering both men's enthusiasm for fine art, one can only imagine the conversation. Brenner showed Roosevelt a model, or more likely a bronze plaquette, of his Lincoln bust, and the president decided it would translate beautifully to a coin. It did. The Lincoln cent closely replicates a plaque Brenner initially created in 1907 to capitalize on the upcoming centennial of Lincoln's birth, thinking he would find plenty of buyers.The first production run of Brenner's Lincoln figure was a uniface 7x9.5-inch plaque mounted on greenish marble with the wording "Copyright 1907 by V.D. Brenner" at the lower right. A pristine example sold in a Heritage auction in February 2007 for $3,107, while a second example with cracked marble fetched $1,792.50. Brenner produced his Lincoln in several shapes and sizes, always with the same profile. (When it works, it works. Why change it? Even the president liked it.) Plaques ran as large as 11x13.75 inches (280x350 mm), and modern after-casts of the larger plaque are known, according to Brenner collector Michael Turoff of Flushing, New York. Smaller contemporary copies often were awarded as school prizes — and if the mark "S. KLABER & CO. FOUNDERS, N.Y." appears on the back, it's an original from 1907, Turoff said (although this mark isn't present on every original). Brenner's Lincoln even showed up on a 22x28-inch bronze tablet depicting his bust in medallic form next to the text of the Gettysburg Address, cast by Gorham Co. and sold to half a dozen schools and public buildings. The City of New York purchased one such tablet in 1909 for the façade of Brooklyn's Borough Hall. It was probably a 1908 version of the uniface plaque, sans 1907 copyright, that Roosevelt saw in Brenner's studio, as illustrated in Cornelius Vermeule's Numismatic Art in America (Belknap Press, Harvard University, 1971). Brenner apparently shopped around for duplication work. In 1908, another Brenner design was produced by Tiffany & Co., as noted in Q. David Bowers' unpublished Fifty Favorite Numismatic Pearls. Even the U.S. Mint got in on the deal: Beginning in 1908, it struck at least 350 of Brenner's Lincoln plaquettes at 2.65x3.5 inches (67x89.9 mm), according to Mint records cited in the Journal of the Token and Medal Society, said former TAMS president H. Joseph Levine of Presidential Coin & Antique Co. in Alexandria, Virginia. But it was a "desk medal" version by Gorham that Brenner ultimately gave to Roosevelt <img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/LincolnCentennialPreserveProtectDefendMedal1909Obverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z242/papasteeze/Coins/LincolnCentennialPreserveProtectDefendMedal1909Reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> according to Roger W. Burdette's newly released Renaissance of American Coinage, 1909-1915 (Seneca Mills Press, 2007). In this form, Brenner's Lincoln with the dual dates 1809 and 1909, is in circular medallic style at the left; at the right is a view of a small eagle perched on a steep cliff overlooking a surging ocean with the words, "PRESERVE PROTECT DEFEND." This was meant to stand upright on a desk, and a large eagle with wings spread atop a column joins the two circles like the frame in a pair of eyeglasses. Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=156010&page=2#ixzz1DvQzMnA8" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=156010&page=2#ixzz1DvQzMnA8">http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=156010&page=2#ixzz1DvQzMnA8</a>[/QUOTE]

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