http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007 New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007/comment-page-1#comment-66 Pocket Change « City of Smoke Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:35:14 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1007#comment-66 [...] The original Lincoln cent, designed by Victor David Brenner, reflected the genius of the sculptor and of President Theodore Roosevelt, himself an aesthete, who forced change on the Mint bureaucracy of his day because he found the coinage of the United States unworthy of a great republic. It still is. For the most part, the heroes on our coinage and paper money depict the men considered great half a century ago. [...] [...] The original Lincoln cent, designed by Victor David Brenner, reflected the genius of the sculptor and of President Theodore Roosevelt, himself an aesthete, who forced change on the Mint bureaucracy of his day because he found the coinage of the United States unworthy of a great republic. It still is. For the most part, the heroes on our coinage and paper money depict the men considered great half a century ago. [...]

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