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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kirkuleez, post: 1523554, member: 36864&quot;]Wow, it&#039;s the famous Lincoln moon landing tribute.&nbsp; I thought they were all destroyed at the mint prior to release.</p><p><br /></p><p>A little history of the coin.&nbsp; The coin was commissioned to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the landing on the moon.&nbsp; It was put on the Lincoln cent because some government idiot thought that Lincoln made the famous speech challenging NASA to land a man on the moon within a decade.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t until some genius coin collector pointed out the fact that Kennedy made that speech to the bureaucrats that they finally realized their mistake. After an initial run of 200 billion coins, the mint destroyed them to hide their mistake.&nbsp; Ruben, in his cunning ways, rescued one of the coins as a treasure for numismatists the world over to enjoy.&nbsp; Good job Ruben, you are a credit to the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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