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Hey Folks, Last night I won this elongated Barber Half for the Manhattan Exposition 1893-4. Just wondering if anyone has any more info on it or how scarce it is? I've tried searching and all I was able to find was a large cent that sold at a Stacks & Bowers auction in 2014 for $246.75 and that was it. I'm a big collector of 1893 Columbian Exposition items and this has the same design as one of those elongates and that's what got my attention with it. Then I couldn't find any kind of info on the Manhattan Exposition and never even heard about that expo before. I like different and odd stuff so this one really had me interested. If anyone has any kind of info on it or if it's listed in a book, could you post a photo of the info available on it. Just trying to learn more about it and any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jon   |
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Just trying to learn more about it and any help is greatly appreciated. @qkt, just noticing your post now. If you haven't already, I recommend cross-posting this in the tokens and exonumia section of CCF as you will get more eyeballs on it there. Here is my recently-acquired elongated Lucky Irish Penny. I like that there is enough remnant detail on the rev to see the date of the underlying coin (1999).   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Here is my recently-acquired elongated Lucky Irish Penny. I like that there is enough remnant detail on the rev to see the date of the underlying coin (1999). Very nice! |
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Then I couldn't find any kind of info on the Manhattan Exposition and never even heard about that expo before. ...Huh. I tried to google it and all the links are about elongated coins. (Plus a bunch of probably-irrelevant results about how New York was a candidate for the Columbian Expo.) In fact, it took me a while to find a source that is any more than just an auction listing of an elongated coin from this "expo" - the article "1893 Elongates" by John Spadone from the 1988 TEC News, complete with a reference to an even older catalog (which I was unable to confirm). And no, the article does not give any details on the expo either. Very neat coin, though! I have an elongated IHC from the Columbian expo (found it in a bargain bin, of all things), but this (1893?) Barber half from a different 1893 expo (whatever such an expo might have been) is far cooler. |
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  Here are the two best reference books on old elongateds. Ms. Dows is the first book to cover all the know elongateds of the 1960's There is a listing for the Manhattan Exposition coin, Its Code is N.Y.-M.E. There is also a second known one from the It is a horseshoe With the printing init of Manhattan 1893-4 Exposition, plain edge. From the second book Martin &Dow same basic info copyright 1981 but they have added suggested prices values for the coins. the manhattan Expo is rated a 6 which was $35.01 to $50.00, the Horseshoe is a 7 $50.01 to $100.00. now the current values are what some one is will to pay for them. As with the general coin collecting area the prices may hqave gone down some as the size of the collecting group is getting smqaller. I have all 8 of the main books on elongateds and the other six deal with more current rolled ones, who rolled them and if the dies have been cancelled or sold and if it is known that they have been used to re-roll new impressions on old coins. I have done a couple of searches @ The Library of Congress and they come up nothing found. There might be something in a business directory for Manhattan for those years. but it would appear that it was a small local expo |
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Nice examples! |
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I got these from Rotterdam on the same trip. This city was largely rebuilt after severe damage in WWII and is now a showcase for modern architecture. Perhaps the most famous example of this are the Cube Houses:  Here is the tunnel-like Market Hall...  ... and the Erasmus Bridge across the Nieuwe Maas River:  |
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Great adds Numis. |
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