The Lincoln-Kennedy Connection

Tomorrow is the 209th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12, 1809. 

These Lincoln-Kennedy pennies in our collection make a great gift for this Presidents' Day, which is Feb. 19, 2018. They are uncirculated Lincoln Head pennies that are stamped, or counterstruck, with a profile reproduction of John F. Kennedy looking at Lincoln. 

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The pennies are affixed on card stock listing the following:

ASTONISHING COINCIDENCES

• Lincoln was elected in 1860

• Kennedy was elected in 1960

• There are seven letters in each name

• Both Presidents were slain on Friday

• Both were slain in the presence of their wives

• Both were directly concerned with Civil Rights

• Both Presidents had legality of elections contested

• Kennedy’s secretary Lincoln warned him not to go to Dallas

• Lincoln’s secretary Kennedy warned him not to go the theater

• Both of their successors were named Johnson

  • Andrew Johnson, Lyndon Johnson

  • Each name contains 13 letters

  • Both served in the U.S. Senate

  • Both were southern democrats

  • Lyndon Johnson born 1908

  • Andrew Johnson born 1808

• Booth and Oswald were both southerners favoring unpopular ideas

• Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and hid in a theater

• Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse

• Booth and Oswald were murdered before trial could be arranged

• Lincoln and Kennedy were carried in death on the same caisson

• Booth and Oswald were born one hundred years apart

• Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth - each name has 15 letters

* [ Please don’t take our shipping offer as a snub to Alaska, the purchase of which was engineered by Lincoln’s Secretary of State, William Henry Seward, an 1820 graduate of Union College in our neighboring city of Schenectady, NY ]