Penny Press Machine!

CoinNovice

So i work at a coin shop that would like to own a custom penny press, do you guys have any recommendations on where i could go?
thank you guys!

CaptHenway

A “press” to do what?

DNADave

@CaptHenway said:
A “press” to do what?

My first thought was that he’s talking about making custom elongated cents

I guess it could be something like a Masonic cent or some counterstamp

Hemispherical

A bit expensive.

CoinNovice

im sorry guys!
smashed penny!!

Cameonut

@CoinNovice said:
im sorry guys!
smashed penny!!

Can you post a picture of an example of what you are looking to do? That would be most helpful.

Smudge

You mean the souvenir elongated cents that cost 51 cents and should be made with pre 82 cents?

CoinNovice

i am looking for something like this

CaptHenway

@CoinNovice said:
im sorry guys!
smashed penny!!

The correct term is "elongated cent." You can smash a "penny" on a railroad track.

BillDugan1959

@CoinNovice The squished penny community and the round coin community don't have a lot of overlap. Some, but not a lot.

I suggest this link: https://tecnews.org

Cindy and Tyler are very nice people and I would contact them. Tyler might know the best where to get a machine. There is a lot of variation in the machines, their overall quality, and in the details of operation.

If you can go to the ANA show in Rosemont this month, TEC will have a well-staffed table. The TEC annual meeting is in the morning on Friday, August 16th.

P.S. The Elongated Collectors has a Facebook group too. You do not have to pay TEC dues to participate in this FB group.

rte592

Pennybandz.com
Or
elongatedcoin.com

Namvet69

I have a foot long slice of railroad track and an 8 pound sledge. Peace Roy

Insider2

Contact us anytime at info@elongatedcoin.com or by calling us at (970) 731-3800

The info you want is all over the internet. Some small hand cranked machines are under $200. The vintage machines are on the link for a start.

CoinNovice

@Insider2 said:
Contact us anytime at info@elongatedcoin.com or by calling us at (970) 731-3800

The info you want is all over the internet. Some small hand cranked machines are under $200. The vintage machines are on the link for a start.

i found the info online, just maybe thought i could get it from someone in the community.
a small hand cranked one would be fun. nothing too complicated, yet effective.
Thatd be great!
i will be emailing you

Twobitcollector

@Insider2 said:
Contact us anytime at info@elongatedcoin.com or by calling us at (970) 731-3800

The info you want is all over the internet. Some small hand cranked machines are under $200. The vintage machines are on the link for a start.

@Namvet69 said:
I have a foot long slice of railroad track and an 8 pound sledge. Peace Roy

JBK

Don't forget the dies. You will need to pay someone to cut those

JBK

At an ANA show several years ago I saw a very basic hand cranked press, possibly even hand made.

ricko

I used to have several elongated cents....picked up at carnivals and one from a coin show.... Must be in my exonumia box - somewhere...I have not seen one that did multiple types of coins such as shown above. Cheers, RickO

CoinNovice

@JBK said:
Don't forget the dies. You will need to pay someone to cut those

of course!
we are ready for it,
weve been wanting a penny press for a while!

Insider2

@CoinNovice said:

@Insider2 said:
Contact us anytime at info@elongatedcoin.com or by calling us at (970) 731-3800

The info you want is all over the internet. Some small hand cranked machines are under $200. The vintage machines are on the link for a start.

i found the info online, just maybe thought i could get it from someone in the community.
a small hand cranked one would be fun. nothing too complicated, yet effective.
Thatd be great!
i will be emailing you

LOL. Please don't email me, I cannot help you any more than I have. The Internet is your friend and there are several hand cranked small machines that are not the same as the image of the one you posted.

RogerB

Geee,,,,when the OP said something about "smashing Penny" I thought he wanted to make mashed kitty out of Charmey's cat and serve with gravy or sour cream....

Insider2

Groan...

CoinNovice

well that was fun!
I shall keep looking since im fairly new to this.
I guess i was looking for a walk through or some kind of help
with the dies and what not.
maybe i asked for too much.
thank you!

Close thread please

JBK

@CoinNovice said:
well that was fun!
I shall keep looking since im fairly new to this.
I guess i was looking for a walk through or some kind of help
with the dies and what not.
maybe i asked for too much.
thank you!

Close thread please

There is no "close thread" feature.

If you had searched the forum you would have found another recent thread from a member who is having his own dies made for an elongated coin. I am sure he has some advice to share,

vulcanize

I hope that the thread starter CoinNovice was able to find what he set out to acquire.

Followed a youtube link by rmorgan on another thread and came across the following. Not exactly pertinent to the OP's query but has interesting history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLmmO0zT0XE

My wife and I used to regularly collect these elongates souvenirs whenever we saw a machine and the below two were made when we visited the big apple in 1999 right before the millenium ball drop.

Zoins

Do any dealers bring these to shows like FUN?

Tibor

@Zoins At the recent Chicago ANA, there was an area set aside for the YNs where they could search through a few thousand of the elongated cents. The ANA along with help from sponsors, sponsors this.

Zoins

@Insider2 said:
Contact us anytime at info@elongatedcoin.com or by calling us at (970) 731-3800

The info you want is all over the internet. Some small hand cranked machines are under $200. The vintage machines are on the link for a start.

That's actually cool. I didn't realized @Insider2 worked at ElongatedCoin.com.

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Coinscratch

@JBK said:

@CoinNovice said:
well that was fun!
I shall keep looking since im fairly new to this.
I guess i was looking for a walk through or some kind of help
with the dies and what not.
maybe i asked for too much.
thank you!

Close thread please

There is no "close thread" feature.

If you had searched the forum you would have found another recent thread from a member who is having his own dies made for an elongated coin. I am sure he has some advice to share,

Actually, there is a "close thread" feature. To use it simply mention something political or about CAC. CAC would be safer.

Klif50

I have a lot of elongated cents. Every where that we go for vacation that has a machine we make at least one of each of the available varieties. When we get home we add them to our album. Some nights we will get the album out and take a trip to the past looking at the cents. They are wonderful keepsakes and not that expensive. Our first few cost 26 cents (a quarter and a cent). When we go on trips I carry a small bag of quarters and cents just in case we run across one of the machines. Our last trip, to the Creation Museum in Tennessee, they had a machine and I believe it was loaded with cent blanks and kept your 2 quarters and cent and elongated the copper blank.

CoinNovice

@vulcanize said:
I hope that the thread starter CoinNovice was able to find what he set out to acquire.

Followed a youtube link by rmorgan on another thread and came across the following. Not exactly pertinent to the OP's query but has interesting history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLmmO0zT0XE

My wife and I used to regularly collect these elongates souvenirs whenever we saw a machine and the below two were made when we visited the big apple in 1999 right before the millenium ball drop.

Unfortunately i was not, But the internet did help me as suggested.

That is a great video! Thank you for sharing.

HoneyMarket

@CoinNovice said:
i am looking for something like this

Lamberts Cafe!!!!

Great place to visit - watch out for the flying hot butter rolls!!!!

Barndog

pennymachinesusa.com

Swampboy

Forum member @lordmarcovan had these elongated coins made up.
They're made from a Barber dime, a Mercury dime, an Indian Head Cent and a Lincoln cent.

Modwriter

@Swampboy said:
Forum member @lordmarcovan had these elongated coins made up.
They're made from a Barber dime, a Mercury dime, an Indian Head Cent and a Lincoln cent.

I have the elongated set that @lordmarcovan had made. If I remember correctly, he had them pressed with his custom die made by Cindy's Cents. http://www.elongatedpenny.net/
I have found Houston Zoo and Hoover Dam elongated cents in the Coinstar reject bin and added them to my collection.