Proposed elongated coin project- what do you think?

As it happens, the person creating my elongated coins is Cindy Calhoun, who is the president of TEC. Her business is "Cindy's Cents", at elongatedpenny.net.

I don't really intend collecting elongated coins myself (though some of the early Columbian Expo and Pan-Pac pieces and such have proved tempting in the past). But I did want to make some of my own, for other collectors.

Ladymarcovan does casually collect elongated cents from places we've visited, and has one of those little folders somewhere.

A decade or so ago, I had my own custom wooden nickels (and later, wooden dollars). This is a progression from that, mainly just for fun.

 

Might be about a month. Offhand, without looking back at the invoice, I think I'm into this project for just a smidgen under 300 bucks, not counting the costs of the Merc dime and Wheat cent host coins.

There might be a few small incidental costs that arise (I'm shipping the host coins right now, for example), but I've prepaid for the whole order, so essentially that ~ $300 investment plus the cost of the coins should cover nearly if not all the whole thing.

 

I strongly suspect that that item is actually a defective Pringles potato chip.

(*Or crisp, if you UK Commonwealth folk prefer - since it does have Her Maj on there, after all.)

 

Et voilà, the proofing images.

 

They're Heeeere!

'Course I've still gotta print up holders of some kind and prepackage 'em before I'm ready to start distributing them. But that'll be fairly soon.

There will be some free samples given out, of course.

That's mostly what the Wheaties are for. I used to give out BU late-date Wheaties to folks who bought stuff from me. Now it'll be these LordM elongated Wheaties, on occasion.

The Merc dimes will of course be the "premium" pieces. Most came out looking OK, with fairly definable details, and often readable dates.