Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — The New Penny Will Soon Be In Circulation. [ARTICLE]

The New Penny Will Soon Be In Circulation.

Local bankers are preparing to take care of the new issue of Lincoln pennies which supplants the old “Indian head” copper and which are expected in this section of the country next week. The new penny will bear the likeness of Abraham Lincoln on the side, now occupied by the profile of the young woman. The design, which is the work of Victor D. Brenner, a New York sculptor, has been approved by Director Leach, of the United States mint, who has put the dies at work in the coin stamping mills. As an assurance that the new penny will V® popular, the government has provided that it must remain in circulation twenty-five years at least, as this is the regulation touching all coins of the United States monetary system.