It was Theodore Roosevelt — a lifelong admirer of Abraham Lincoln — who ordered the U.S. Mint to introduce copper pennies ...

This wheat design remained on the penny until 1958, when it was replaced by the Lincoln Memorial design. As a result, the Lincoln Wheat Penny has become an iconic piece of U.S. coinage history ...

While Lincoln is still on the penny today, the wheat is long gone. It was replaced by the Lincoln Memorial in 1959 ... visible mintmarks are cheapest. "Ghost" (barely visible) mintmarks can ...

The memorial is pictured on the back of the U.S. $5 bill and on one side of the U.S. penny. Lincoln Memorial was ... From ...