Friday Question #171
By kilax, November 18, 2011 5:09 am
Have you ever made an elongated coin? Do you collect them?
Steven has been casually collecting them for awhile, so I bought this Penny Passport for him while we were in NYC*.
I didn’t realize this until I went to write this post, but apparently, elongated coins have been around since the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893! That’s pretty cool.
I know I made a few as a kid, but have no idea where they are. It would be fun to find them and see where I made them.
It’ll be fun to fill up Steven’s Penny Passport! Now we just need to go somewhere besides NYC…
*It will probably take me another week until I stop mentioning tidbits from our trip.
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I made one once but can’t remember where. That’s awesome that they have been around since 1893. I had no idea! Nice bit of research.
I have to laugh — as I just realized we both wrote friday coin posts. LOL! I think I had one made at the Oregon Coast once, but I never thought about saving them as a collection. The passport book is a cool idea.
We are collecting the state quarters in a book like that! We also collected the full set of Euro coins from all the different countries when the Euro started in 1999. Coin collecting is fun!
Do you have all the first state quarters? They went back and added landmarks and national parks, right?
I love the Euro coins. Love them. I think coin collecting is fun too. We have some other coins in our safe, but they are not organized in any neat way!
I like his budding elongated coin collection!!
I collect National Park stamps in their passport and got Troy into it too. It’s become a really cool addiction and I WANT THEM ALL!
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Cool! How does that work?
I’ve never made an elongated coin before. I wanted to when I was little and we were at Disneyland, but my parents refused to pay for it. Totally ruined all my fun.
I’ve never seen one before! Very very cool! 🙂
I could get you one from Naper Settlement across the street from where I work. Let me know.
I have an elongated quarter I made by duct taping it to the train track that runs behind my house. It’s pretty swank.
Cool! I will ask Steven! I’d like to see your quarter sometime! That sounds neat 🙂
I’ve never done it but I see them all over touristy places. Jen from Cake Wrecks and Epbot collects them as well and turns hers into jewelry!
I don’t collect them, but I have made a few over the years. I think the last time was Sea World in Orlando in 2007 when I made a penguin penny (i know, shocking…).