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 A few pages back, I was musing whether the above would've been made from a U.S. or Canadian cent. Later it occurred to me that it ought be easy to tell one way or the other since there's a slight variance in weight between those two. So this morning I finally got around to pulling it out again and immediately noticed some aspects of it that for whatever reason I hadn't before. It's a bit oversized but nevertheless still rather thick. Plus, it just felt heavy in the hand. My scale confirmed that last impression - it came in at 5.1 grams! I've carefully examined the reverse and it's really featureless, so at this point I don't have a clue as to from what coin this was derived. Colligo ergo sum
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I stumbled across this one in a dealer's "cull" bin today. What I really like about it is that it was made from a contemporary, freshly minted 1904 cent.   I'd further remark with respect to this piece that when compared to the simplistic and not very artistic novelty introduced at the Columbian Exposition (as shown on page 1 of this thread), it rather dramatically demonstrates a progression to a far more sophisticated, even final, form in just a decade's time. Colligo ergo sum
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06/12/2018 12:58 pm
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Very nice, Lucky Cuss!  |
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Very nice indeed, there are 3 versions of that scene with only minor variations
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I like that one, LC! In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Here is a book some may find interesting  It is available from The Elongated Collectors group bookstore, There is a discount on it if you join the group http://tecnews.org/ if you join tell them #4981 sent you |
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Does anyone know what was charged early on to engage a machine to make your cent into a souvenir? Just another 1¢, maybe? Or was it perhaps a nickel or even a dime? Nowadays with the do it yourself coin operated machines, a half dollar seems to be the going rate.
Colligo ergo sum
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06/12/2018 8:15 pm
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The written histories that I have read from guys that worked the machine stands at the 1933 worlds fair said it was your penny and a nickle to smash your penny. They made .15¢/hr They were cranked by somebody working in the stand.
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Lucky Cuss - I love that 1904 St Louis elongate - beautiful! There are few modern ones that can compare with the quality of that engraving! With regard to the elongated Niagara Falls coin, I wonder if this was struck on a blank disc. I think there were (possibly still are) laws in Canada about defacing coinage. I've also got some Canadian elongates that seem too big and heavy to be struck on cent planchets, and I once got some elongates in Canada where the machine proprietor supplied US cents to smash! These elongates are from Bremen in Germany - a science discovery center called the Universum. One has a portrait of Albert Einstein!   |
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 South bend Lathe one |
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I'm still messing around with my locally available elongated coin making press. This was made from a 1967 Canadian cent. Note the faint outline of the dove on the backside.   Then I tried a 1983 Swiss 10 rappen (copper-nickel).  Once again, there seems to be insufficient material present with that issue to obtain a complete transfer of the design. Colligo ergo sum
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I just bought two large lots of these (nothing too old among them) - here's a small sampling:  |
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Found this previously 1928 Wheat cent turned into a 1933 World's Fair token in a bag of world coins. Before I found this I didn't know pressed pennies went back that far! Not entirely sure why it has "Republic of China" on it though, maybe each nation there was making their own elongated pennies?   Edited by Johnathan55
06/15/2018 10:15 pm
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