Sioux City native designs new Lincoln penny
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Sioux City Journal - Online Edition - Iowa
Sioux City native designs new Lincoln penny
Sunday, November 16, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- Sioux City native Richard Masters has
designed the reverse or tails side of one of four
new pennies that will be circulated next year in
recognition of the bicentennial of President
Abraham Lincoln's birth and the centennial of
the first issuance of the Lincoln cent.
The reverse or tails sides of the new coins will
reflect four different designs, each one
representing a different aspect or theme of the
life of President Lincoln -- his birth and
early childhood in Kentucky, his formative
years in Indiana, his professional life in
Illinois and his presidency.
The obverse or heads side will continue to bear
the familiar likeness of President Lincoln
currently on the one-cent coin.
Masters' design features the 19th century cabin
that sat on the Lincoln family farm and
represents Lincoln's birth and early childhood
in Kentucky.
The Lincoln family lived on 30 acres of the
228-acre Knob Creek Farm near Hodgenville,
Ky., from the time Lincoln was 2 1/2 until he
was nearly 8 years old.
Masters is an associate professor of art at the
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He is the son
of Wayne and Dorothy Masters of Sioux City and
a 1973 graduate of East High School. He
received his bachelor's degree in studio art,
a master's degree and a master of fine arts
degree in design, all from the University of
Iowa. He now resides in Appleton, Wis.
Masters also designed the Nebraska quarter and
a silver dollar commemorating the desegregation
of Little Rock (Ark.) Central High School.
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