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Elongated Coins

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 Posted 06/12/2007  2:34 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add LeAnn to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Searching something else and came across this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/100-ELONGATED-C...KE_W0QQitemZ220120010935QQihZ012QQcategoryZ3453QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

I wonder are they all elongated at the worlds fair or just various places?

Also found large pictures of elongated coins from 1893 fair:
http://www.1893columbianexpo.com/18...s_page1.html

Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I think it goes with e-bay selling elongated cents.
LeAnn
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06/12/2007 2:50 pm
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 Posted 06/12/2007  3:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Most of those elongates were made at a Six Flags amusement park somewhere. The others are just random elongates. The worlds fair part is a "restrike" of the first elongate used at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair(aka Columbian Exposition). I doubt if it is a real restrike though using the original die- more than likely they made a new die to make the "restrikes".

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 Posted 06/12/2007  3:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add LeAnn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Biokemist6:
Did you read in the St.Louis Post Dispatch about the cache of 1893 coins?
http://post-dispatch.readervalues.c...lumbian.aspx
I seem to be finding a bunch about this expo lately.
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 Posted 06/12/2007  4:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow that is lame...nothing but hype and ridiculous prices($99 for an MS 1963 Franklin)
Those Columbian halves are easy and inexpensive to find with a little circulation and the survival rate is actually quite high. What is getting hard to find are the higher grade ones (MS63+) that are blast white. That is definitely not what is depicted in the ad though.

If you are interested in purchasing one, I could probably get one for you from my bid board for $10-15- I see them at least every other week.
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06/12/2007 4:34 pm
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 Posted 06/12/2007  5:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add LeAnn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No not interested in getting one yet, just found this stuff searching something else.
LeAnn
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