This design is arguably the farthest of all from Brenner's original design used for the Lincoln cent. The engravers took a healthy amount of artistic freedom in creating the detail in the beard and on the throat this time - it looks like individual strands of spaghetti glued to his face.
Design types · Obverse (ODT)
Spaghetti beard obverse (ODT27)
Lincoln's beard and throat hair look like spaghetti. Very sharp details.
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