Elongated Coins/Pennies

Something you aren't considering the machines used at 1893 WCE were not coin-op's They had to be hand cranked by an operator at the booth. They may have had only one machine or some had multiple machines in a booth. Some booths had multiple operators and a supervisor would over see a number of locations, or attendants.
This information has been passed down through written stories by people that operated the machines at the Expo. One of who worked for the owner of a number of machines, that moved them from fair/expo to new venues.
So although during slow times the operators could have run through other coinage and then reset the mills. It isn't widely reported.
My jewelers rolling mill, is easy to adjust for different thicknesses of metal. I don't have any elongated dies for it just shapes, wire sizes,flat and patterns

Indeed not, Circus.

Well-spotted!

Here's the result of my penny squashing! It has to be said that my main reason for visiting London was to see a concert by the great Paul Simon and James Taylor in a very hot and crowded Hyde Park!



- 8 coins from the Natural History Museum
- 7 coins from the Science Museum
- 8 coins from the Tower of London
- 4 coins from a souvenir shop outside the Tower of London
- 3 coins from Bubba Gump Restaurant

My efforts to get all four pennies from one of the machines at the Science Museum were thwarted by the arrival of a huge group of Japanese students who took over the machine while I was trying to get more £1 coins to operate the machine (I had plenty of pennies). There should have been four Bubba Gump pennies, but the machine somehow jammed when I put one penny in: putting a second penny in freed the mechanism, but the first "stuck" penny came out as a duplicate of a design I already had. Rather than risk losing money, I called it a day, and headed to Hyde Park for the concert. Still, it was quite a good haul for one day!

Great assortment! Love the dodo.



Each one set you back £1? As I said earlier in this thread, the going rate on this side of the pond seems to be 50¢. That'd be less than 40% of what you're paying!

This gallery of elongateds is not at all organized (actually a total mishmash) but there're a lot of pretty interesting ones in the mix to look at.

See: http://numismaclub.com/category/272..._/index.html

Some miscellany on this topic that I'm posting now before I forget.

First off, for whatever it's worth, in doing some research I discovered that NGC has certified Columbian Exposition elongated nickels,(as well as a 2¢) with designs M&D-4/4B. I think this implies that NGC regards them as original pressings as opposed to rerolls. Unfortunately, the specific listings do not have images available to view.

With respect to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, I happened across this photo of "The Pike Souvenir" -



This specimen looks a little "brassy" which may just be an artifact of how the photo was taken. In any case, I gather this constitutes a grail item for the serious collector.

Staying with that 1904 event, this APMEX listing surprised me, I just didn't think they'd be a seller of such.

See: https://www.apmex.com/product/45717...-indian-cent

The "rippled" appearance of the reverse is quite similar to that of the example I posted way back on page 6 of this thread.

Elongates seem to be popular in Spain nowadays. Here's a 5c coin that I rolled at the Caves of San Jose near Valencia:

@nr, I agree about them being popular in Spain. If I had planned my change better, I coulda ended up with way more.