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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7304162, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Some of you who have done business with me or won one of my giveaways might have seen some of these, so I thought I would post this for posterity. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">These are my own custom elongated coins. I had the dies made and coins rolled out by Cindy Calhoun of &quot;<a href="http://www.elongatedpenny.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.elongatedpenny.net/" rel="nofollow">Cindy&#039;s Cents</a>&quot;, who is president of TEC (<a href="https://tecnews.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tecnews.org/" rel="nofollow">The Elongated Collectors</a>).</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The design is the Scottish clan badge of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Donnachaidh" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Donnachaidh" rel="nofollow">Clan Donnachaidh</a></i> (Robertson). My mother&#039;s maiden name was Robertson, which is how I came to have that as my first name.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Few if any folks nowadays use older host coins for elongates, let alone silver, so I thought that would be fun.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Numismatic regards,</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">~Robertson (&quot;Rob&quot;) Shinnick</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">(&quot;lordmarcovan&quot;)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Edit: September, 2021:</b> the first five types have now been&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lord-marcovans-elongated-collection-has-been-officially-cataloged.386085/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lord-marcovans-elongated-collection-has-been-officially-cataloged.386085/">published</a>, thanks to the efforts of our own good [USER=114169]@ZoidMeister[/USER].</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Here are the types:</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1277316[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1277317[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1277318[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1277319[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1277320[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1277315[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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