Elongated Coins/Pennies

A couple more English elongates. This one comes from an excavated Roman fort near Newcastle (on Hadrian's Wall):


This one from Derbyshire was made for an attraction based on the popular children's book "The Wind in the Willows". When I got there, the attraction had closed - but the smashed penny machine was still there and working!

Gene Autry was probably the most famous of the "singing cowboys" that were a staple of movie matinees starting in the 1930's before making a transition to television in the 50's. His legacy includes several Christmas songs that remain extremely popular decades after they were first recorded.

This elongated may well be a souvenir of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, but it might also have been pressed at the Melody Ranch Museum in nearby Newhall, where an annual Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival is held.

Wow! That is very interesting!

Edinburgh Castle in Scotland:



Edinburgh was the first city in the UK where smashed penny machines became common. Eurolink, one of the first British manufacturers and distributors of these machines, were based in Scotland, so that's probably why.

But on page 8 of this thread, Circus said:



Now that rolled dime seems to have some age to it, and the motif looks properly Victorian. What worries me is that if a dime was pressed through a machine intended to elongate cents, you'd expect the coin to have run out before the far end of the die was reached - but this specimen exhibits the entirety of the design, and perfectly centered to boot. So I'm a bit suspicious of its originality, despite the host coin being of some numismatic value.

Since there are many old dies that are still being rolled today. Yours has the 5mm "9" it is listed in Dottie Dow book from 1965

The one listed as 5a has the "9" as 3mm high. there is no notation by this one.

In this one which is the current updated edition 4 of the joint book by Martin and Dow. The 5a one has the notation listed as First appeared in 1964 Not regarded as original 1893 issue. Also in the section on rerolls There is a paragraph "It appears that someone thought there were not enough dies used at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition. So suddenly in 1964 three new varieties appeared. They are ILL-WCE 2d, 4a and 5A. They are all considered open dies, meaning they can be rerolled at anytime. They are apparently available on any coin imaginable." The only thing I thought that was odd about that one was the date on the dime is 1858 and that means the coin was in circulation for 35 years. They were ended 1891 so I guess that it is possible. As to the use of only pennies it was in a story by one of the people that were at the expo rolling pennies.
As with any history you have to take it with some consideration of true or false.

Thank you gilgerr24 and circus for the information on the elongated coins from the Columbian Expo. I have several with the other more common designs on a few different host coins other than Indian cents. Is there anywhere you know of that I can find the info in those books for just the Columbian Exposition elongated coins? I collect just about everything from the Columbian Expo and these are the only type of elongated coins I have. Those books are a little expensive and I don't want to spend the money for just the few pages that would interest me. Here's another example rolled on an 1888 Canada Large Cent.