
The back (reverse) of the penny pictures the Lincoln Memorial, a monument to Abraham Lincoln located in Washington, D. C. look closely at a real penny, you can see a tiny picture of Lincoln sitting inside the Lincoln Memorial.
Certain people felt a man of Lincoln's importance deserved to be on a higher denomination than a penny. The counter to this was that Lincoln was the common people's president; therefore the penny was the appropriate choice.
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