How angry does this make you? :)

My favorites are when you can see the year on the reverse too.
Unless it's old enough then it's cool to see the back of a Barber either obv or rev.

 

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ThanX for the Link

ThanX for the Link, Krispy.

But now I feel sad for my ignorance. I didn't know the Chicago World's Fair was the intro for such machines.

I dumped my few last year from that fair because I was told they were taking up space in my sock drawer. Now I wish I had them back!!!

 

If it's any consolation, this rather sounds like you have someone, besides yourself, to blame for loosing them...

 

I love those things. I wish they would make one for quarters.

 

The machine takes quarters, two of them, to operate, plus a cent, only it just gives you an elongated cent back.

I'd like to see larger coin elongated machines too, but the composition is harder than copper or zincolns are so the squashing wouldn't be hand crank operated for an easy result that kids could do. It'd need to be electric motor driven and the cost would be like one dollar to operate and one squashed quarter in return.

 

If the cent is fed in so the design is impressed on the reverse the date and mint usually are visible.

I don't know if they have automated comercial machines like the cent machine shown earlier, but the people who make the elongateds do make elongated quarters as well.

 

This does not bother, nor does putting wheresgeorge.com on dollars. As a matter of fact it would not bother me if you put a whole roll of 1909-S VDB's through the machine. I might say it was foolish, but they are your coins to do with as you please.

 

Ray Dillard is actually working on a die for the local coin club that I am President of. Should be seeing it in the next two weeks. Its celebrating 175 years of the area we are in. I will post a pic when they come in. There is a website that has TONS of information on them. www.tecnews.org Go there and check it out. Well worth being a member if you collect, I think its like 12 bucks a year, you get a newsletter and free elongateds from private rollers within the club. If you go and join tell em #4181 sent ya! LOL.. They really are fun, not as fun as my large cents or Busties but, they are serving a purpose right now.. Keep on Smashin!!

 

There was also another WG thread that popped up today: Currency Tracking Study

 

Are these rare...? because ive seen tons of them at parks

 

I love these machines as well. I think they're great little mementos of different places I've been.

 

Contradiction in terms...

No they are not rare.

 

GRRRR! I don't like these machines at all! I mean, who knows how many 1909-S VDBs, 1992 Close AMs, or even 1972 DDOs have been through those ripoff machines! Even the common, everyday modern coins pressed in those machines will be worth something someday!

 

Chill CM~
I bet more 1909 S VDB's have been hit by lightening than have been mangled by such machines just because folks tend to rummage through their change to sacrifice said specimen.

......now pennies hit by trains........that might be a different story...

 

You know what, I change my mind. +1 to DoK U Mint.

 

Don't knock it till you've cranked one! They're fun!!!

 

Yep - I saw that. The original thread was much more anti-where's george than the current thread. I just can't get upset over things like this. To me its like getting upset over someone taking a model-t ford and creating a hot rod - your car go for it.

 

An excellent example! :thumb:

 

Disney World has these things everywhere. Each year they change the design. My wife and I did a full set for the year 2000. I bought a roll of silver quarters from a local coin shop and went for it. We did one "test" to see what they looked like and you can read the dates on all of the coins we used. We even had one we tried that didn't catch the coin until it was 3/4 done, so we have an ERROR Disney Elongated 2000 silver Quarter. That has to be worth thousands... right? I checked and dealers in elongated coins use silver all the time for these things. The complete set for 2000 cost us $20 for the roll of quarters (silver was 4.15 an ounce) and each coin pressed was $1 (I think) so the full set cost less than $40 to do and we had fun searching for the presses. Disney has maps of where they place them and it took us about 4 hours to find them all. The 2000 set in silver sells for $250 to $300, so we could sell them if we wanted.

Amy and I met on AOL back in '94. Met face to face at Disney World in 1995 and got married in 1997 with, you guessed it, a week of Honeymoon at Disney!

These don't make me mad, they make me smile AND they can make you money if you do it right!

Ben

 

I think I got 4 different elongated quarters at Disney.
Someone needs to make a machine that you put in an elongated cent and a 1914-d comes out!