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The Lincoln cent was first produced in 1909, 100 years after Lincoln’s birth in 1809. Many numismatists started out collecting Lincoln cents, and is still a favorite among collectors today. it’s has had 100 years of production to help create many varieties and oddities to collect. Many people will call this coin a penny. Even Merriam-Webster’s dictionary dances around the definition and does not directly implicate the us cent was to be called a penny. A penny is an English monetary unit, our coin is based on the centavo or cent. Since our currency is based on the Spanish milled dollar, it seems appropriate to call the smallest unit a cent. But I have called our small coin a penny in casual conversation. Calling it a penny is appropriate in my opinion because the word can remind us how diverse our heritage is, we used Spanish standards, but we spoke English and was used to using English coinage. Such a mix is the melting pot of the United States. Another neat piece of trivia is that by US law the one cent coin is NOT legal tender over 100 cents per transaction. This was to keep you from paying your taxes in pennies.
Pygmalion ipod The one cent is the most abused and loved coin. We have placed it on railroad tracks to see it get squished.
Thrown it into wishing wells. Pressed them in elongating presses. Used them in science experiments. Put them inside the walls of newly built houses as a good luck charm. Stamped advertisements on them. Also stamped a second head on them as in the infamous jfk cent. Used them to replace a missing fuse in our fuse boxes (although i don’t recommend that.) Also used them as
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screwdriver. They have been made every year since 1909 without fail. They have been made from bronze, steel, zinc, and made from spent brass shell cartridges from WWII. the reverse of the coin was changed from the wheat reverse to the memorial reverse in 1959. Now in honor of it’s 100th anniversary the us mint is going to produce 4 new reverse designs to the cent.
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I believe the new cent designs will be well accepted by the public. The new coin will be made in copper plated zinc in the same composition as the currently minted cent. A numismatic version will be made from the old 95 % copper plainchant, with identical metal content as the 1909 one cent coin, but will not be put into circulation.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury trailer The future of the one cent coin is not very clear now, some have proposed making them out of some kind of plastic, some want to do away with them forever. But there is a store that i know, that will sell you a gummy fish for 2 cents. Kids in this town can still feel like the lowly copper is still real money.
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Well it has an axe head with a stick running through the middle, with a bundle of sticks all tied together with rope, but it really does not look that practical for a weapon, i sure would not want to use it in a fight. For that matter it doesn’t look like it can chop down any trees either, how would you get the axe head completely inside what you are chopping without the reeds hitting something?
It has an interesting history. I am not going to go through it’s complete history but i want to hit on the highlights. Let’s start at the beginning. It’s name is the fasces (faes’keyz). This is a symbol, it was never meant to be a practical tool. It’s history goes all the way back to the Etruscan civilization. Rome adopted this symbol as a Mantle of power. A person walking behind this symbol was a person of great power. It symbolises strength in numbers. The reads each on their own are quite weak and would break easley, but when they are tied together they become very strong. This symbol was also adopted by the fascist movement, and yes, as in the Nazis!. Mussolini’s Italy chose the fasces as there symbol of fascism. It had the same meaning to the Italians, as the swastika did to the Germans during World War II. Although it escaped the horrible reputation that the swastika got saddled with during the war, it still was an important symbol for the movement.
The United States also adopted this symbol long before Nazi fascists. Although it was a fascist symbol long before the Nazis as well. But i will let you discover this history of fashisom yourself.
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This symbol also sits prominatly on either side of the flag behind the rostrum in the us senate.

Below is a closeup of the right side fasces in the senate.

There is allot of interesting information about this symbol of power and bond. do a web-search and see what you come up with.