Elongated Coins/Pennies

Lovely example, Lucky!

I can imagine Julie Garland going to get that one squashed after getting off the trolley...

Excellent post!

During this evening's episode of Pawn Stars on the History Channel, Rick purchased for $350 (!) an 1893 Columbian Exposition elongated. The seller said it was in a group of coins he had bought at a yard sale, so provenance is zero. The back was never shown so it's not clear precisely what type/date cent was the host coin, either. The design was similar to a notorious "open" die that reportedly isn't original, but of which pressings started appearing around 1964; I'll have to view a rerun of this to see just how closely the example shown conforms to that spurious pattern.

For comic relief, the show ended with Chumlee setting up a coin-op penny press in the shop, and supposedly selling the product of same for $5 a pop....

I just received an email from some one in the elongated community which got it from the dummy chummlee's boss
Hello,

We just featured an elongated penny from the 1893 Columbian Expo on the latest episode of Pawn Stars. Part of this episode featured Chumlee with a hand crank penny machine rolling out pennies in the shop that had a die with his face on it. It was very funny to see this all go down. So of course now Chumlee has approached me to help sell these pennies for him in the store!

We are currently offering two types of coins, a Lincoln Cent and a Nevada Statehood Quarter. Both feature Chumlee and his dog Pinky. They have been encapsulated by NGC and feature hand signed labels by Chumlee. We are retailing the penny at $30 and the quarter at $40. We wanted to give the opportunity for people in the elongated coin collecting community to purchase these a bit cheaper. We created a discount code for the month of February. If you add either of these coins to your cart and use the code PRESSED at check out you will receive $5 OFF for each elongated penny or quarter you purchase.
Just another rip-off I refuse to be part of a over priced rip-off to include the ordering info. greedy jerks
They are two I won't be buying

Nice trio NumisRob

Thanks guys!

Also picked up this one at the Meyer Werft shipyards in Papenburg, Germany - an incredible place where you can watch huge 4,000-passenger ocean liners being constructed in giant covered hangars.

I've collected squashed pennies from all over the world lately, but have only just got around to getting one from the next county:


Wakehurst Place is a 16th-century Stately Home in Sussex. Latterly it was owned by a family who were very keen on gardening and collecting plants: it is now administered by Kew Gardens in London (of the scarce 50p fame!) and is the location of their seed bank and laboratories. The grounds and mansion are open to the public.


Bizarrely, there is an exact replica of the mansion in the USA!

I actually have an 1893 Columbian Exposition elongated cent that I found in a bargain bin (yes, in Moscow - no idea how it got there).

I tried to identify its die a while back; IIRC, it turned out to be one of the common authentic ones. Don't recall the host date offhand, but it was in the 1880s.

Might have pics of it somewhere, but don't recall where. If I find them, I'll try to post them in this thread.