https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:02:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:50:09 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=1007 The Lincoln cent was first struck in 1909. Its obverse portrait of the sixteenth president, designed by Victor David Brenner and bulldozed through the Mint bureaucracy by President Theodore Roosevelt, is the nation's oldest circulating coin design. With over a billion pennies minted annually, this portrait is the]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/1007/feed 1