rsraghead Posted May 19, 2013 Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 What do they group as?They are quarter size and both sides detailed. Are they tokens?How about the rolled out stamped pennies?What are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Posted May 19, 2013 Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 Since only government approved money can be classifed as coinage. They would fall into tokens classification I think. The private groups do them for any number of reasons, generally to commemorate an event etc. "rolled out stamped pennies" Elongated coins have a separate collecting area. http://www.pennycollector.com/ Here is the offical elongated penny collecter site. http://www.pressedpenny.com/ Here is a site that sells them. They are also on Flea Bay for sale in bulk amounts, under elongated pennies headings I have some that were done for a local coin club a number of years ago. I picked them up at a LCS set of four, a penney, dime, nickle and quarter! All the same imprint on the obverse and on most you can make out the oringal imprint of the coins denomination. I don't have any pictures of the yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted May 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 I have a couple of the pennies, and got a few of the Shriner's coins at an estate sale the other day. One in particular had a lot of details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabnoles Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 This falls under the general realm of exonumia... I could be mistaken, but I believe tokens are often defined as coins used for the payment of services that are not actually currency (i.e. transportation tokens, gaming tokens, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted May 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 i was in a hurry when i posted earlier, coins are masonic and not shriners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted May 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 i was in a hurry when i posted earlier, coins are masonic and not shriners the top belongs with the bottom. oops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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