All American pennies say "In God we trust" and underneath that they have a portrait of a bearded man. Until I was 8 I thought the portrait was of God! Only later did I learn that it's Abraham Lincoln.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.— END
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- I thought that all black people were African-AmericanAnon