Elongated cents
Hello, one of my collecting interests is elongated cents from the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair and the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Here is a link with pictures of all the die varieties. I have 25 of these and have all the varieties except for 1f, 1h and 5. I also have 91 of about 150 varieties of the 1933/34 Chicago Worlds Fair. I have one made from an elongated nickel; the only one I have ever seen on anything but a cent.
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Permalink Reply by Garry N on -
Here is the reverse of the 1914-D. Hopefully it is readable
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Permalink Reply by Rassi on -
Very interesting... I have collected elongated cents for about 10-15 years...but nothing serious. I just collect them when I visit somewhere, and friends and relatives know I collect them and will sometimes get me one or two. My favorite is one that commemorates the home run battle between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire the year they broke the HR record.
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Permalink Reply by Garry N on
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Thanks for responding. Collecting elongates is a very active hobby. Lots of people do it. Ive been specializing in those two worlds fairs as I live in chicago. The zinc cents in general dont have the patina of bronze and won't tone like bronze..
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Garry N said:The zinc cents in general dont have the patina of bronze and won't tone like bronze..
I've noticed that and when making elongated cents myself, I always try and use one of the pre-zinc pennies....
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Permalink Reply by KryspiDyslexic on -
Hi Gary. There was a time I would not even look at an elongate. Being a Coin Collector most of my life, I always thought elongates, and coins turned into Love Tokens were defacing our coins. I just couldn't accept that.
As I got older, and became bored with U.S. Coins, I first started collecting World Coins, then moved into Tokens, and other Exonumia, including some elongates. Very cool pics by the way!
You know what's really sad? The machines to make elongates are vanishing really fast. There used to be one at an amusement park we would take our Daughter to. Its right up on Lake Erie (in Erie PA) right at the entrance to Presque Isle State Park.
We did go on vacation there a few times, but its close enough to us to just drive up, and make a picnic day out of it. Anyway, every year we went, we would make some elongates to mark the occasion.
Sadly the last few times we went, we found out they got rid of the machine. Bummer.
Its that way everywhere. You used to be able to find them all over. They used to be in the front of the big department stores, with the rest of the vending machines. No More!
We vacationed last summer in Daytona Beach, Fla. Lo & behold, we found one at a popular hangout. My Daughter & I emptied our pockets, and made a bunch. That's the last I've seen of one, and don't know if it will be there next year.
Wouldn't you love to buy one, say, at an estate sale or something? Then it would be even sweeter if you could find and acquire the Roller Dies from all the long gone places, and be able to make your own! Just a thought. Later.
Jerry
"Dyslexics are teople poo!"
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Permalink Reply by Lureuin on -
They used to be at the Rest Stops along the New Jersey Turnpike. Does anyone know if they're still there?
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Permalink Reply by Jim Archibald on -
Garry N said:Here is the reverse of the 1914-D. Hopefully it is readable
That probably makes your elongate one of the rarest ones ever produced for that series, amazing that this was still pocket change at the time of the fair. Elongates while "defacing" coins actually only transform them into exonumis or "coin related" collectibles. Something similar to the counterstamping of advertising onto a coin. I'd never do that to a 1914-D Cent though. ~ Jim
U.S. Coin Collecting
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Permalink Reply by Garry N on
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I imagine the '14-D was not known as a scarce coin in 1933. Its tough to think that coin was messed up like that. But it's the only '14-D I own, lol.
Jim Archibald said:Garry N said:Here is the reverse of the 1914-D. Hopefully it is readable
That probably makes your elongate one of the rarest ones ever produced for that series, amazing that this was still pocket change at the time of the fair. Elongates while "defacing" coins actually only transform them into exonumis or "coin related" collectibles. Something similar to the counterstamping of advertising onto a coin. I'd never do that to a 1914-D Cent though. ~ Jim
U.S. Coin Collecting
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Permalink Reply by Garry N on
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Yes its a function of the market, the better coins are skyrocketing in price so I switched to exonumia and I have a great collection of Columbian Expo and Chicago Worlds Fair elongates, a number of really nice civil war tokens which are included elsewhere here and also a nice Grant/ Washington medal by Pacquet that is also pictured here. I didnt see any reference to sources to purchase rolling machines in the Yesterday's Elongates book.
KryspiDyslexic said:Hi Gary. There was a time I would not even look at an elongate. Being a Coin Collector most of my life, I always thought elongates, and coins turned into Love Tokens were defacing our coins. I just couldn't accept that.
As I got older, and became bored with U.S. Coins, I first started collecting World Coins, then moved into Tokens, and other Exonumia, including some elongates. Very cool pics by the way!
You know what's really sad? The machines to make elongates are vanishing really fast. There used to be one at an amusement park we would take our Daughter to. Its right up on Lake Erie (in Erie PA) right at the entrance to Presque Isle State Park.
We did go on vacation there a few times, but its close enough to us to just drive up, and make a picnic day out of it. Anyway, every year we went, we would make some elongates to mark the occasion.
Sadly the last few times we went, we found out they got rid of the machine. Bummer.
Its that way everywhere. You used to be able to find them all over. They used to be in the front of the big department stores, with the rest of the vending machines. No More!
We vacationed last summer in Daytona Beach, Fla. Lo & behold, we found one at a popular hangout. My Daughter & I emptied our pockets, and made a bunch. That's the last I've seen of one, and don't know if it will be there next year.
Wouldn't you love to buy one, say, at an estate sale or something? Then it would be even sweeter if you could find and acquire the Roller Dies from all the long gone places, and be able to make your own! Just a thought. Later.
Jerry
"Dyslexics are teople poo!"
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