the smallest value of a coin is a penny.
Abraham Lincoln
The coin is brass not gold, the names are on the front of the coin.
Take any penny minted in 1959 or later. Look closely inside the Lincoln Memorial. A very strong magnifying glass may help.
President Coin
Lincoln Penny
Abe Lincoln is pictured on the American one cent ( penny) coin. He was our 16th President.
The Penny
President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a coin to honor Lincoln's centennial.
The Lincoln penny of 1909 was the first US coin with a president's face on it.
The 1881 one penny coin can be worth from $6.00 to $50.00 depending on the condition of the one penny coin.
A Coin?
No Lincoln is on the penny and the $5 bill and Jefferson is on the nickel and the $2 bill.
The face value of any coin is what is inscribed on the face of it. The face value of a 1 Penny coin is 1 Penny.
The first president to be pictured on a US coin was Abraham Lincoln in 1909 on the penny. Prior to 1909, all US coins featured a personification of Liberty or a design emblematic of the US such as a flying eagle.
Since 1909, the image of Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States) has appeared on the obverse of the US one-cent coin.
Penny - British decimal coin - was created in 1971.