Elongated coins Lets see your souvenir of a different time and place.

The first elongated coins in the United States were created at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois. Several designs were issued to commemorate the fair, and are available in the elongated coin collecting community.
Our own "Rob" aka Lord Marcovan has revived this simple token of a special time and place in your life....where you for under a buck made a remerbrance that can be carried with you for a life time.
For the avenge person these were a simple and cheap way to enjoy your experence,advertise your business, and become a lifetime memory.

So today this thread is for you Rob! For all you do for everyone here on coin talk.
Your passion for this hobby is second to none...!

Your generosity not only holding contest, but the time ,and paitence you given the membership here is losted in simple words.....but duely noticed by any one who has ever signed in to this form.

This holiday I am very Thankful for people on this planet who share the same passion, and who gives to other unselfishly the time and material gifts they have to offer.

The elongated coins you post are from a different time......but posting them here today they will honor the one and only "Lord Marcovan"......so Lets see yous.... Post your smashed coins and honor a very special person .....Rob!

 

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Here is an example of 1893 Elongated Coin
Not my slabs..


And another


I find them fascinating.

 

Just a little over a year ago, the night the Nationals clinched the National League Pennant from the Cardinals (as a Cincinnati Reds fan, that was sooooo sweet!), they were selling a series of seven (7) elongated pennies/cents commemorating the event at Nat's Park. They had two machines set up. You had to go to one machine to get any of the first four (4) designs, then go to another about 100 yards away for any of the other three (3) designs.

Yaddy-yaddah...I got all seven designs, but don't know what I did with them. Since 2019 was the Nat's first World Series win, I should maybe try to find them.

 

Elongated under the wheels of a train way back in the 50's

 

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"Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age."
...Mark Twain

I guess we can add "elongated coins" to that, too.

 

Well I agree with that statement....what I think we forget is this.....and I remember this from my dear mother.
Mom worked for 7 Lawyers in her youth....she would travel between Baltimore and Annapolis on a train to the state capital.
She was paid $7 @ week. This was the 1930's so that should give you a measure of the value of money.
Alot of these smashed pennies were a lot of money to the working class.
The expos were more so for those of means, not the evey day man.
To be able to attend,and also have the means to obtain even a 1 cent souvenir was big!
I often use a inflation calculator to bring my wants into reality. As our wants always exceed our needs.
These smashed coins are a portal to understand a different time.
When simple items gave us such pleasure, and a smashed coin a lifes treasure.

 

I have a few newer elongateds, with this being the oldest. Found it metal detecting.

 

We had a club when I was a kid in the '60s that used train-flattened cents as Club Currency. All fines and awards were paid with Club Currency.

 

Souvenir from a trip to San Francisco
1982

 

2006 was the last year that my Mom attended the FUN Show with me. She passed away later that year. I love you, Mom!


I like to collect elongated cents that have the obverse on the back side so I can see the year the coin was struck.

 

Some coin show elongateds.