New Elongated wins, who would roll a 1885 Liberty Nickel or a 1911S 1C?

jabba

My 1st elongated coins and I love them!
Host coin is a 1885 Liberty Nickel
listed in the Martin-Dow catalog as Ill-WCE-4 with four stars


Host coin was a 1860 1C
listed in the Martin-Dow catalog as Ill-WCE-2


Host coin was a 1911S 1C
listed in the Martin-Dow catalog as CAL-PPIE-2

NumisOxide

Nice early elongates. I sold an 1893 W.C.E. 1886 V-Nickel last year.

cladking

It looks like it was probably a high grade VF when it was rolled too.

I'd guess it was just luck of the draw since these were a much higher percentage
of circulating pennies at the time. A coin collector though might be inclined to use a
scarcer date with no premium just to have a more unusual item and this is certainly
pretty unusual. A used to have the same one rolled on a 3c nickel but it was a com-
mon date.

jabba

I wonder what happend to all these rolling machines?

StopMotion

Very Cool! I love how you use the word "Host"!
SM

tmot99

Nice elongates. I collect by denomination of the host coin, not by die or rarity of the host coin. You have to remember, in 1893, the 1885 nickel might not have been known to be rare, or known by the person who had the nickel to be a scarce date. They likely pulled a nickel out of their pocket and had it elongated (for the pricely sum of 50 cents).

lordmarcovan

Those are wicked cool. The 1885 nickel is heartbreaking and yet great all at the same time. Sort of the way I feel about some of my nicer holey coins.

I had a Columbian Expo elongated cent once, but I don't remember the date. It was on a fairly common 1880-something Indian cent.

jabba

<< <i>Nice elongates. I collect by denomination of the host coin, not by die or rarity of the host coin. You have to remember, in 1893, the 1885 nickel might not have been known to be rare, or known by the person who had the nickel to be a scarce date. They likely pulled a nickel out of their pocket and had it elongated (for the pricely sum of 50 cents). >>



Was it that much! 50C was a good chunk of change in 1893!