Yesterday I received something fairly rare in the change the clerk gave me for my bottle of Dr Pepper purchase.
It was a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.
But not just any penny.
It was made in 1919, so it is 93 years old. I guess Abe would have said "Four score and thirteen years ago" instead of the words "ninety three", or he might have gone with a more complex "Five score minus seven years ago", since he was fond of the number seven with his scores. Abe was rather unpredictable, a loose cannon in a day when cannon were more common and people knew how to keep score. I have never received a coin that old before as just change from a business transaction.
Update: 2012.05.13 Rob Z Tobor posted a picture of his chicken sitting in front of a web page with my coin!
You can visit his website at ...The Slightly Eccentric Diary of Rob Z Tobor...
Update: 2nd Photo
That should reaLLy make Rob's chicken wonder what is going on ....
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