Found This on Our Short Vacation

Elongated Cent Machine.
Didn't know they still existed.
FYI, it's located in the Lewes, Delaware, Cape May Ferry terminal.
I didn't have any cents or quarters so I didn't use it.

 

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I love those danged things. I never walk past one without trying it out. Works best on copper, not zincolns........

 

First time I have seen one. Thanks for sharing

 

I always travel with some copper cents just in case I come across one...

 

My family stopped at several tourist attractions in the 60's and 70's and we saw a bunch of these. A few places had multiple dies for different outcomes.

 

btw - here is my first elongated cent...

 

Darn. I have a York, Maine one somewhere and i can't seem to find it .

 

I've got books full of these that I've made over the years. Just took a trip to Hawaii and came back with another dozen or so from Iolani Palace and the Polynesian Cultural Center.

 

I carry a roll of copper cents and a roll of quarters whenever we go somewhere on the chance that we will run into one of these machines

 

At the ANA WFoM they have an area set aside for YNs to pick out a few elongated cents. Very popular. There's a machine at the ANA headquarters as well.

 

Dimes will work in a pinch.

 

If anyone is ever on the Outer Banks in NC the Wright Museum & Elizabethan Gardens both have/had one of these machines. Been a few years since I was down that way though.

 

Disneyland in California has over 125 of these machines in use. Most tourist spots have them as well.

 

I have hundreds if these I have made over the years, and my friends know how much I like them and make them for me also.
Bigger coin shows used to have bowls of them for the taking.
Coneca used to have some cool ones.

 

If you watch how you put your coin in you can get the date on the reverse. That way if you use a coin from the current year you have your souvenir with the year were there.

 

Love those machines. Went to Disneyworld last Nov it costs at least a dollar for a cent.

 

I ran a '43 steel cent through one once...



Also ran a shield cent through the same machine (different design though)...



Ran a 5-cent euro through the machine at the Pegasus Bridge museum in France...

 

There are at least two websites, pennypresses.net and Pennycollector.com that list locations where the machines are all over the world. There are some other sites that list locations as well (and probably all of them aren't listed) The Pennycollector site also lists locations where they used to be, and has images of the cents produced.



These are the designs from the Cape May Lewes Ferry machine in the OP

 

Man, these things are EVERYWHERE in Southern California. Basically every tourist destination has several.