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Penny Foolish
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/opinion/11margolick.html

Description:
This 2007 article recounts the history and cultural significance of the Lincoln penny. "[W]hen it first appeared four score and 18 years ago, it was a matter of almost unimaginable curiosity, excitement and veneration. ... Editorialists praised it as the perfect tribute to a martyr, or denounced it as a trinket unworthy of him. Immigrants had a special reverence for it; to blacks, it was 'emancipation money.'" Also includes poems. From The New York Times.

LII Topics: Coins, Money

Author:
Margolick, David

Publisher:
The New York Times

Extra Keywords
coins cent Brenner

LII Database Information:
Record 27000 created by Maria Brandt on 09/30/2008
Last modification on 11/05/2008
Published: 11/06/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27000

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