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Any elongated collectors here

I am just starting to get into some of the elongateds and am curious if there are any others here.

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  • Here is a cool post on elongated coins!
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  • jabbajabba Posts: 3,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just jumped in head first my self
    Host coin is a 1885 Liberty Nickel
    listed in the Martin-Dow catalog as Ill-WCE-4 with four stars
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    Host coin was a 1860 1C
    listed in the Martin-Dow catalog as Ill-WCE-2
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    Host coin was a 1911S 1C
    listed in the Martin-Dow catalog as CAL-PPIE-2
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  • bfjohnsonbfjohnson Posts: 541 ✭✭✭
    I paid 50 cents to turn my lincoln cent into an elongated giraffe today at the zoo and it was well worth it. image
  • I seen those WCE elgongates on ebay. Those are really great peices. Glad they went to a board member.
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    Yes, I have an extensive WCE elongate collection. www.1893columbianexpo.com
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    I just bought 30 pre-1982 cents out of a manager's desk drawer today in preparation for a trip to Sequoia-King Canyon National Park. There are supposed to be 5 penny stretching machines up there with 4 different designs each, so my 8-year old will have a field day cranking them out. Out of the 60 to 70 cents in the drawer, only 4 were wheats. There's a 1919 in VG-F that may escape the rack, a 1945-S with VF details and a wicked rim nick, a 1946-D in F, and a grungy 1949-S in VF. Unfortunately, there were no 1926-S cents in MS65RD+.

    Maybe it 100 years they'll be worth $1 each or more.
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  • My daughter likes to make them and saves them as souviners of places we visit. She only wants them if she was there and made it herself.
  • fastrudyfastrudy Posts: 2,096
    I was an elongated collector,

    but I got better!
    Successful transactions with: DCarr, Meltdown, Notwilight, Loki, MMR, Musky1011, cohodk, claychaser, cheezhed, guitarwes, Hayden, USMoneyLover

    Proud recipient of two "You Suck" awards
  • I have afew my family and I have made at various attractions. The zoo in Brevard Co. Fl. Pocono's mt in Pa, and afew others. Ill see if I can dig them out and get some pics to share.


    Looking for Au Classic Commems...
    Also looking for VF-EF Seated halves.

    Sell me your old auction catalogs...image
  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There always nice to collect, especially those 90% silver dime, quarter, & halves...
  • I only collect these as souvenirs of places/events I have been to. Since most souvenir shops are full of marked-up junk, this is a cheap alternative.

    How does everyone store their collection? I use the elongated 2x2's with a Dansco 7000.
  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I only collect these as souvenirs of places/events I have been to. Since most souvenir shops are full of marked-up junk, this is a cheap alternative.

    How does everyone store their collection? I use the elongated 2x2's with a Dansco 7000. >>



    I had my Columbian Expo elongates slabbed.
  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wouldn't Forum Member "Tootawl" be considered an "elongated collector"?

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

  • ArizonaJackArizonaJack Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭
    I collect anything that says Detroit and have a bunch of elongated Lincolns from various Detroit functions and places. A Detroit Tiger / St Louis Cards 1934 World Series just sold on Ebay yesterday for big bucks !!
    " YOU SUCK " Awarded 5/18/08
  • SLQSLQ Posts: 311 ✭✭


    << <i>My daughter likes to make them and saves them as souviners of places we visit. She only wants them if she was there and made it herself. >>



    My kids do the same thing every where we find these machines on vacation. I always pack some new pennies and a roll of quarters just for this purpose.
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭


    << <i>There always nice to collect, especially those 90% silver dime, quarter, & halves... >>



    I brought some junk 90% Roosies on a trip when I knew there was going to be a dime stretching machine at one of our stops. Oops, is "junk Roosie" a redundant term? image
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    We have a couple of binders for these. It's amazing how many machines are out there. I think it was Marine world we just kept running in to them and each machine had 4 or 5 different designs.
  • I like elongates!

    I have quite a few from Disneyland and other places I have visited.
    Some call it an accumulation not a collection

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