How angry does this make you? :)

Been a while since I have posted. Life got crazy with working 75 hour weeks, a buddy of mine past away, and then had my yearly vacation in San Diego.

So in San Diego they have these machines everywhere. As a kid I used to use them, but since I started to collect cents I have found my self cringing at the site of one of these. I wonder how many key dates have been destroyed

What are your thoughts?

 

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I wish they could design a similar device that would elongate the coin while preserving the mintmark and date for posterity.

 

It doesn't make me angry at all... I love finding these machines!

Gives us another use for the one cent coin and expanding the hobby!

Pressedpenny.com

More elongated cent links...

 

What does a Zincoln look like after it has been abused by one of these?

Last time I saw such a machine was so long ago cents were "Solid".

 

+1

 

It makes our key dates even more scarce

Plus there are some cool ones out there. Like I've been looking to get Columbian Expo Elongated Seated Dime or Large Cent.

 

Interesting. Being new to the hobby I didn't think that these elongated coins were sought after. I just thought it was just a tourist thing. I learn something every time I post

 

Ya if you already have them, not like myself

 

I've made a few of these elongated cents (from Zincoln's) in the last couple years. I purposefully made them from post '82 cent coins mind you! Notice how the copper stretches and exposes the core metal. These are some examples from 2009 I made at the Tower of the Americas and the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
and from 2010 Shedd Aquarium, Chicago machines.





I like that they impress the year on the coin when it's sent through the rollers. I suppose machines could be calibrated not to exert so much pressure as to obliterate the pattern on the coins, sometimes you see traces of the design on the smooth back sides.

 

I love those things. I collected "elongated cents" before I collected anything else!

 

There's certainly a demand. I really never gave it much thought, but if someone wants to run their 1914 D through, doesn't that make all the remaining 1914 D's a bit more valueable ?

 

Cool Use for Zincolns

I forgot to mention~

They do not inspire anger from me at all.

I suspect they make folks LOOK at the coins in their pockets and thereby help preserve scarce cents.

So, what does it cost to render a cent cent~less? How much would one pay to get such a machine?

I want one of those machines for my own so I can produce guitar/mandolin picks.

 

50 cents + one cent to elongate is the general going rate these days! Quite a racket eh!

Machine specs and product brochures are available at Pressapenny.com/machines They are PDF download links in the middle of the page.

 

I guess if you were a Quarter collector this actually would be great for you

 

Agreed!

 

Wonderful tourist trap! I can see it now: A guy with his illegal Cuban Cigar in a leisure suit with his feet in Gucci shoes up on his desk. Not to mention he's a little fat around the middle!

 

Doesnt bother me in the least. I actually belong to the elongated collectors club (TEC), I know the current president personally and have gotten to see a small portion of his meager collection of elongateds. He has the largest collection of elongateds in the world. I got to hold in my hand a full sheet of 2 1/2 dollar Gold Indians that had been squashed, both an 1885 and 1886 V Nickel flat as a pancake! Don't know how many he has in his collection but the portions that I have seen are IMPRESSIVE to say the least. I only have a few thousand so just getting started in it, but its fun! and Most of them are cheap..

 

You very seldom find a 1914-D even when you're looking for it, so I don't see it as being a problem. Most of the cent pieces today are new (after 58), meaning where I live I never see a wheatie. It may be different in other states but I really don't think so.

 

1885 and 1886 V nickels crushed? That hu:so-sad:rts!

 

Here's another one. It's from the Spring 2010 MSNS Coin Show

I didn't make this one but rather, won it in a contest on another forum! :hail:

I really like this one because the obverse design shows through on this elongated coin.