https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007 New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007/comment-page-1#comment-66 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. […]

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