Why is a penny brown when all the other coins are silver. And why is Lincoln's head facing the opposite of the other presidents on the silver coins?
The penny was done in copper hence the brown. The engraver used an already-existing image as his model, and in that image, Lincoln faced right!
Updated on Wednesday, February 01 2012 at 04:15PM EST
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