Birthplace of Lincoln One Cent Coin Sketch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 1958
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: artist
content: Gasparro, Frank
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This drawing of Abraham Lincoln's birthplace was one of many designs made by Frank Gasparro in 1959 for the reverse image of the cent. The new coin was to honor the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. From the many sketches and ideas offered, the Mint chose the now-famous image of the Lincoln Memorial, and it remained on the reverse of the cent for the next fifty years. To celebrate the 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, four new designs were placed on the reverse of the cent. The design, called <I>Birth and Early Childhood in Kentucky</I>looks very much like Gasparro's log cabin drawing done fifty years earlier.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Art - Currency
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
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content: Art of Gasparro
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Christina Gasparro Hansen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0005.009
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0005.009
label: accession number
content: 2009.0005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sketch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.4 cm x 20 cm; 10 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: image: 13.5 cm; 5 5/16 in