United States · 1909–1958 · Bronze
The coin
For more than a century, American coins showed Liberty — never a real person. Putting a once-living face on the nation's money felt too close to a king's portrait. Then, in 1909, a Lithuanian immigrant sculptor put Abraham Lincoln on the penny, and the rule was broken forever.
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