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02/01/2025

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01/28/2025

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01/27/2023

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11/10/2022

Walt Disney World is offering many opportunities to celebrate its 50th anniversary, including new pressed penny designs. These classic souvenirs can be found across the resort, so we've assembled a full guide with photos and locations of each celebratory coin. Magic Kingdom The Emporium Th

10/18/2022

A lot has changed since the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition took place in Chicago. However, one of the innovations unveiled at that Expo continues to entertain and appeal to all ages. Elongated coins or pressed cents continue to captivate.

10/18/2022

If you have ever visited an amusement park, a large zoo or another family-oriented vacation spot, you have probably seen penny-press machines. You put...

10/17/2022

‘Penny rolling.’ Elongated coins. Such a deliciously anachronistic technology. Something that nostalgically evokes a bygone era of seaside arcades, tented glowing carnivals at the edge of a field outside town and the dim back corner of some out of the way, worn-down-to-the-bone tourist attractio...

10/09/2022

A penny isn’t worth much. And it loses its status as legal tender once it’s been run through a souvenir penny-press machine. But Squished Penny Museum co-curator Pete Morelewicz sees […]

09/03/2022

Pressed Pennies are one of those classic things that people just go ape over. Especially Disney Pressed Pennies! And I can't blame them, I had hundreds of them growing up, and I saved every penny

08/29/2022

From Marvel superheroes to long-lost Universal rides to a VelociCoaster opening design, here are your best bets for collecting pennies.

08/17/2022

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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for CHARLES LINDBERGH 1927 Transatlantic Flight 1902 1974 Elongated Copper Penny at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

03/26/2022

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Elongated penny pressed on a copper cent.

10/29/2021

09/26/2021

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07/19/2021

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04/09/2021

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02/24/2021

You don't need a drill to put a hole in a pressed penny. This simple technique is easy to tackle for those who don't have a machine shop.