Older Compadre test run. I think i found a keeper

[The Dirt Fisherman]

well i never really think much about them either. heres the one closest to my desk

 

[ToddB64]

Todd, I believe those are pressed souvineer pennies found in many tourist areas. There are hundreds (probably thousands) of different pressing dies, and the machines that make 'em are scattered all over the country. I've found three or four of those pressed pennies so far this year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin

Here are a couple I dug up a few months ago:

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pinenut,

Thanks very much for posting the history on souvenir elongated pressed pennies. Very interesting ! I Googled the question "does copper harden when worked" and Wikipedia had an article on the resulting links list, so clicked up the article and it talked about and showed an example of a press machine that you can run copper pennies through and I assume different die designs are available (didn't read the whole article). However, the thing that caught my attention was the article mentions the work hardening that takes place when the penny is run through the machine. The "Entertainment Junction" souvenir pictured in my above post #14 is thin, but hard, metal.

ToddB64

ToddB64