Penny Art Portrait - Happy Birthday Abe Lincoln - New 2009 Penny - President's Day

A portrait of Abraham Lincoln using pennies. Contains 1025 pennies. A penny from every year and mint between 1909-2008. A complete collection minus the (1909 svdb penny and errors). A majority of the pennies are wheat pennies dating 1958 and earlier.

No pennies were altered to make this portrait. They are in either circulated or uncirculated states. Thousands of pennies were sorted to find just the right coloration. I was assisted by Tom Hallenbeck ( http://www.hallenbeckcoingallery ) to find all the pennies I needed.

It's difficult to see in the video but each penny is inside a tiny protective capsule. This prevents the penny from being damaged while handling and allows them to be glues for the final artwork assembly. For more details about the finished art visit the ebay listing. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310122464764

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• Abe
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• numatist
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• Numismatic

[poopq00q]

@1KittyBlood1 i am pretty sure those are the 1943 steel pennies copper was needed for the war

[flexyldy]

Thumbs up if you thought he was actually going to really PAINT wwith pennies.

[TheMandolineer]

@ConnectionGoneWrong they're 1943 steel pennies.

[Oaklandraiders126]

Do they sell this?

[MrGuitarhunter]

Lincolns within a Lincoln?

Lincolnception

[CelestiaMinor]

@LostPie - I do, except for the MSPaint part. I've found a few steel pennies in my change over the years, as I'm in the habit of collecting pre-'57 silver and wheat pennies; steel pennies are wheats since they were only minted in 1943, while the copper was being used by the military in WWII.

[misswolf999]

Imagine if he sneezed and knocked it ....

[guitarhero1346]

@HollowVampire They're not worth anywhere near that much.

[chancehazebrown]

How long did it take to complete this?

[LostPie]

so this is the same guy who painted the mona lisa on ms paint... AND he has some sort of steel pennies lying around that i've never heard of in my entire life. like... who does that?

[LostPie]

so this is the same guy who painted the monalisa on ms paint... AND he has some sort of steel pennies lying around that i've never heard of in my entire life. like... who does that?

[ConnectionGoneWrong]

you cheated, there is nickels in there!