Elongated Coins/Pennies

Given the motif of this one, I thought it was pretty cool that (although you have to examine it very closely to tell) the host coin was an 1897 Indian Head cent.

That is my favourite one so far.

very nice adds.

Got these four yesterday in London from a machine by the River Thames!

Well done.

I thought I'd illustrate the sort of Indian Head cent I use for rolling modern elongateds. As you can see, this is a very rough specimen that's nowhere near any sort of acceptable condition for the purpose of collecting.



Here's what it was transformed into as of today.





Commencing in 1881, the Bird Cage Theatre operated continuously (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year) for most of the remainder of the decade. Many premier performers and acts were booked to appear there during this heyday. One of the few original structures to survive Tombstone's repeated conflagrations and the city's eventual decline, nowadays the Bird Cage Theatre is a particularly authentic and evocative remnant of Arizona's territorial era.

Here's the building as it appeared c.1930, boarded up and abandoned.



Here it is as it presently looks.

Well done, Lucky Cuss!