A Rolled Susan B. Anthony

You read that correctly. A SBA that was elongated. The obverse is 90* different from the reverse. I can’t recall ever seeing that on an elongated coin and you don’t see many dollar coins that have been rolled.

The obverse has toned dark and the reverse is quite natural, silver like in appearance. It makes the flag look more natural.

 

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Some work gone on there. Reverse ground off? Someones artwork on the reverse?
Interesting piece, thanks for sharing

 

It’s a rolled or elongated coin. In this case the reverse of the original coin was replaced by this design. Probably ground off and smoothed to get this as nice looking as it is. I don’t think there are too many of them available.

 

Love that reverse as it looks like a saw blade with those reeds showing like they are.
Wonder what damage it did to the machine?

 

This was rolled on an IHC

 

Another nice example, I like it

 

Wonder what the tonnage was to get that rolled? Maybe a private issue done in a tooling shop and not on an elongated machine?

 

The SBA does not look like it had the reverse ground off, I can still read One Dollar
on the right side.
I do think the reverse was brushed clean, and it had stain applied to the obverse before being rolled.

 

They have a hand powered roller ,simular to the one they use to pull wire stock or roll sheet medal to the desired thickness. There are two rollers a knob on top to adjust the clearence between the two.
In this case 1 roller has the design the other blank . As you turn the crank the coin pulls though.

 

Mine was too. I am quite sure this is a reproduction as it was rolled on a worn 1901 cent. One eye, one horn .

 

Ive only seen 1 of another elongated cent from the 1901 expo...it was graded by NGC and $450! Pocahontas was the person on the coin.

 

I never noticed that but I see it now. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

Yes sir, a sheet metal roller was what I was thinking about.

 

Exactly i had 3 friends who were jewlers...they had such a machine that they draw wire or run sheet or actually a ingot of silver or gold and flatten to the size needed.

 

Someone posted this a while ago and I grabbed a copy of it. Hand roller press.

 

Not a cheap tool either....

 

No that is orginial

 

Are you saying my buffalo is an original 1901 piece?

 

Looks like that would do the job!

 

Yes