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Hello and welcome.  You might want to take pictures and put them in the Exonumia or Australian Coin sections of the forum to make sure, but just from your description, I'd say what you have is a perfectly normal "elongated penny". At Expo 88, a chap by the name of "Roll-a-penny Lenny" set up a machine to sell Expo souvenirs. He wasn't officially licensed so he couldn't sell them on-site; his booth was usually just outside the main gate. The machine he used took real, actual old Australian pennies, and "elongated" them - the coins are crushed between two roller dies, not unlike a 19th century washing machine. The Expo 88 design is on one of the dies, the other design is blank. He even had a 1930 penny that he said he would elongate and sell, if you had thousands of dollars you wanted to throw at him. Elongated pennies usually retain much of the design of the original coin visible, though since the coin was flattened by the process the design is preserved in the pattern of toning/tarnish rather than the metal itself. The "nip in the planchet on the bottom of the token" is an effect of the elongation process; this is where the two rollers "grab onto" the coin, to prevent it from slipping out again. You can find "elongated penny machines" at tourist venues all over Australia, and in NZ too. It's a thing we've copied from the Americans, where they elongate their 1 cent coins. Australian current coins don't work in the machines very well, plus it's illegal in Australia to mutilate current coin, so the machines in use here today use specially made blank metal discs the size of American 1 cent coins, instead of actual coins. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Formerly nancyc
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Hi Tammollie,  to CCF!  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Bedrock of the Community
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to the CCF! |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Everyone here is friendly, but we all love to see photo's so don't be shy with the camera! |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes and we love pics! Look forward to seeing your collection!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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to CCF! Edited by CopperCastle
11/18/2015 5:51 pm
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Valued Member
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Tammollie it's good to have you here! Sap - Your answer was amazingly detailed, especially considering you only had the verbal description. Your knowledge and ability to "teach", are really spectacular. It would seem that tammollie was really lucky, and got the exact, best person to reply. I learned as well. Thanks. Jack |
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Welcome to everyone, happy to Join you all on the website
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Valued Member
United States
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Welcome Tommollie - you'll have fun here...on uploading, check at the top and click on "Tutorials"....it is really pretty simple...experiment with it.....
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Hi and Thankyou to you all who ever read and replyed to my post. And a big thankyou to sap truely amazing reply you really know your stuff I cant believe how precise and how much history you had for me I learn so much so I thankyou for your reply.truely amazing
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Valued Member
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welcome from me as well my story is the same except I have at it since the 60,s
Regards Al
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