Is this cool ?

Louis

bohica268

Very! Is it an elongated cent?

rainbowroosie

Very cool -- love it!!

lordmarcovan

Looks purty cool to me!

I used to have an elongated Indian cent from the Columbian Exposition.

Louis

<< <i>Very! Is it an elongated cent? >>



Yes, from the 1904 Worlds Fair and looks like it's on a 1904 Indian Cent.

bohica268

First time I've seen an elongated with something on both sides. Most modern machines obliterate the design on one side. Could it have rolled between 2 dies, one showing the Palace of Electricity and the other being an elongated I.H. design?

Shamika

<< <i>Could it have rolled between 2 dies, one showing the Palace of Electricity and the other being an elongated I.H. design? >>


It IS an IHC!

bohica268

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<< <i>Could it have rolled between 2 dies, one showing the Palace of Electricity and the other being an elongated I.H. design? >>


It IS an IHC! >>



As I stated "First time I've seen an elongated with something on both sides. Most modern machines obliterate the design on one side."

I can see it is an IHC. My question is: how was the obverse kept from being destroyed in the process of putting the Palace on the reverse? I thought there might be a second die with the elongated IHC design and date.

seanq

The older machines were manually cranked and used a much lower pressure than modern ones, it's not uncommon on older elongateds for the design on the oposite side to retain some detail.

LM: I also had an elongated Columbian Exposition cent, on an 1892 Indian (I wish I could find the images now...). I'll even raise you an elongated 1919-S cent with a rim clip - someone used a clipped planchet error for a host coin, some of the rim diagnostics are still visible (again with the missing images...).


Sean Reynolds

MFH

That's a bit of history in your hands...love the thought of having something that was purchased at the St Louis Fair, Pan-Pac Expo, Columbian Expo, etc.


Your collection looks very interesting. Wish I had an elongate from the NY World's Fair from 64-65.

shylock

I bought this one a while back because I thought I detected an 1894/1894 RPD on the fuzzy EBay pic. In person the "4" shows some traces of doubling, but the rest of the date is just too pressed out to know for certain.