Oh Charmy? Elongated Cents Collectors... A Couple of Easy Questions

MsMorrisine

What are the oldest known examples of elongated cents you have?

What are the oldest known examples that you know of?

aj2525r

Hello,

IIRC, I've heard of elongates from the 1893 Columbia Exposition.

I don't have any really old ones, I got one from Long Beach, CA in 1989 when Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose was still by the QEII.

I like elongates and have a few hundred of them. A lot are from Disneyland.

I'm guessing Charmy has lots more information than I do.

Cheers

ThePennyLady

I too really like elongated cents and have a beautiful one from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. I know they were really popular around the turn of the century, especially during the Pan Am Expo, etc., but am not sure when the earliest ones were made but AJ's response sounds right. Rick Snow may have more info on these so I'll send him a pm and ask him to respond if he knows.

MsMorrisine

I bought some flips for them, and in anticipation of the kid and I putting them in, I thought I'd bone up some.

Thanks for the pictures, that's just what I was looking for.

Here are some Columbian Expo

taxmad

I have one from the late '30's or early '40's from Grand Coulee Dam. I will have to find it. Any value in these, or do they have to be from a pretty historic event?

Broadstruck

<< <i>I've heard of elongates from the 1893 Columbia Exposition. >>



I haven't seen any prior to the 1892/93 Columbian Expo.

savoyspecial

you will not find any that pre-date the 1892 Columbian Expo because that is where the technology of penny machines debuted......the oldest host coin i have ever heard of is an 1834 U.S. quarter

tmot99

Yep. Technology started at the 1892-3 Worlds Columbian Expo. I had an 1825 Large Cent host coin and a 17XX Pillar Dollar both rolled at the Columbian Expo. Besides some rolled gold coins in 1893, some of the rarest elongates are the Pike elongate (I think from the 1904 Worlds Fair) and the Cairo Street elongate from the 1893 Fair. On the Cairo Street, there are about 5 known examples remaining. At one point, I owned two of them, but have since sold one of them off.

crazyhounddog

<< <i>I too really like elongated cents and have a beautiful one from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. I know they were really popular around the turn of the century, especially during the Pan Am Expo, etc., but am not sure when the earliest ones were made but AJ's response sounds right. Rick Snow may have more info on these so I'll send him a pm and ask him to respond if he knows.

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Wow Charmy! Now that is one very beautiful elongated cent, nicest one I've ever seen

garrynot

I have photos of Columbian Expo elongates on a 1719 British halfpenny and an 1818 Large Cent, but the dates are not visible. Those two are not mine. The ones below are a few of mine.

WCE 1a 1889 nickel


WCE 4 1890 cent


WCE 1b 1891 dime


1891 dime reverse

garrynot

As tmot99 mentioned above, here is one of the WCE 6 Cairo Street elongates that sold recently on Ebay. Rest assured, I do not own this. Was this one yours, tmot99?




Here is an example of another scarce variety, WCE 5 on an 1890 cent. I do not own a number 5 yet either.