20150819

US Civil War Era Penny


"Indian Head Penny" 1863 CuNi mintage 49,840,000  VF20
KM#90

Besides Gettysburg and the other domestic US events that occurred in 1863 it was also the year that French Chemist H. M. Mourries developed margarine. How's that for an obscure and otherwise overlooked event from a momentous and horribly bloody year.