Any of You Collect Smashed Pennies ?

[coolpix9]

I am talking about the ones that have been rolled thru a machine and have cute sayings or state parks etc. If you do collect them, drop me your addy by PM and I will send them to you. I keep finding them in my bags of halves. Thanks, Jim

 

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[jrf30]

A PM has been sent your way. :-)

 

[Silver_Fox]

I like them too but jrf30 beat me too it. For the record, they are officially called elongated pennies. They have there own category on Ebay, Elongated Coins.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

My girls collect them ....but looks like I am third in line....LOL

 

[Narthoniel]

I keep the ones I find on the beach. I have about 5 of them now from this summer that I have found.

 

[aa battery]

thats nice of you to send them out to others.

 

[Silver_Fox]

Yea I find them MDing and CRHing. I put them in folds and in my brag book.

 

[BBcardsRI]

Would love to see some pics of the brag book Foxie

~Dave

 

[treasurefiend]

Growing up, whenever I saw one of those machines I would get one. I had quite a few but sadly I have no idea where they are today...

Looking back, it cost 50c to elongate 1 penny. The man who thought of that has got to be a millionare a couple times over by now!!!

 

[Silver_Fox]

Fun Fact

Did you know that the first penny press appeared at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago USA in 1892-93 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus ’s discovery of America? It was a hand-cranked model turned by the operator-not the customer.

That would be a good one to find.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Growing up, whenever I saw one of those machines I would get one. I had quite a few but sadly I have no idea where they are today...

Looking back, it cost 50c to elongate 1 penny. The man who thought of that has got to be a millionare a couple times over by now!!!

Where I have seen them in the last couple of years is at amusement parks. This summer I went to Cedar Point in Ohio and got a bunch of different ones. I have gotten them from almost every big tourist type place I have ever been to recently - Universal Studios, Disney World, etc.. And they still take two quarters and a penny to make them.

If I remember right, if you put the heads side on the left when you use the press machine then you can have it come out with a readable date on the opposite side of the elongated design. Most times when I would use one I made sure I was running a copper cent through and not a p.o.s. zinc cent.

Here are a couple of ones from Cedar Point.

Design side


and opposite side

 

[treasurefiend]

My parents have a refrigerator magnet that is a penny with a heart laser cut out of it, I think they paid like $3 for it... - LOL

Talk about easy money!!!

 

[Immy]

Pennyworth is a major smashed penny collector.

 

[jrf30]

I am talking about the ones that have been rolled thru a machine and have cute sayings or state parks etc. If you do collect them, drop me your addy by PM and I will send them to you. I keep finding them in my bags of halves. Thanks, Jim

I got them. And the foreign coins. Thank you SOOO much for them. :-) A PM is also coming...