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THE KING OF ELONGATED COINSLen Augsburger passed along this article about the upcoming sale of one of the world's earliest souvenir elongated cents, made at the 1904 World's Fair. Thanks. -Editor 
Have you ever gone to the zoo or a museum and received a stretched coin as a souvenir? Well, the Over 100 years ago there were machines along the midway at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis making coins for keepsakes. The Pike Souvenir elongated cent was made from a 1904 Indian Head cent.
The midway is also known as The coin is in excellent condition. The auction's description describes the cent as one of the finest graded by the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation: "Obviously rolled and then put away into careful storage, the surfaces exhibit substantial mint orange — is that the proper way to describe color after a cent has been elongated? — and the Indian design itself remains plainly discernible on the reverse, itself still showing a lot of orange color." You can see the coin on July 23 at Scotsman Coin & Jewelry's Midwest Summer Sale. It will be at the Saint Charles Convention Center in Saint Charles along with the Missouri Numismatic Society's convention. Online bidding is underway now.
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