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Hey Bryan: Here Is An 1893 Cairo Street Elongated

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I tried to send Bryan a PM but I got an error message. Guess newbies like me have to have a certain # of posts before using the PM system?

Anyway, in an old thread he had mentioned the Cairo Street elongated from the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and I was going to tell him that I used to have one. I sold it to the guy who put up the 1893 Expo website, and unfortunately his pic links seem to be broken now, but I still have a picture of it on my server.

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Bryan, is this one of the two that you know of?
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 Posted 01/24/2011  02:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
50 posts is a threshold for certain perks, including email contacts.

Is there anything on the other side?
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Nothing interesting. It is on an 1892 Indian Head cent.

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That's got a lot of cool history!
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yeah that is a cool coin with allot of history there, I have seen a few of them throughout the years online but have never seen one in person. I believe I have seen a few different designs of elongated coins from the Columbian Expo but the Cairo street is the most popular. Thanks for showing it
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My great-grandfather actually operated one of the elongating machines at the Expo. Here are the other ones. My grandfather kept them all in a little cardboard box, and eventually gave them to me.

http://71.1.42.94/elongated

When Tom approached me to buy the Cairo Street, I wasn't going to sell at first because it was a family heirloom, but he made me a surprisingly generous offer I couldn't refuse. I think my ggf would have approved, because it allowed me to buy this for my type set instead:

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yeah I have seen some pretty big price tags on the cairo street elongated coins. He left you some nice collectibles there with allot of family history to boot
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