It's actually a bit more stunning." Nearly 18 years ago, McCoy launched Apex-based Penny Portrait, which sells kits to help you craft a portrait of Abe Lincoln -- using your own pennies.

Faces of the frontier : photographic portraits from the American West, 1845-1924 / Frank H. Goodyear III ; with an essay by Richard White and contributions by Maya E. Foo and Amy L. Baskette ...