If you have been collecting pressed pennies for years or inherited someone else’s elongated coin collection, you might want to look into their worth. Adobe MORE: The Best Coin Collection Holder 9.

San Francisco Pressed Penny Souvenir business reacts to the end of the penny For Matt Sengbusch's business, dollars have never made sense, but coins do — particularly the penny. He uses them to ...

Many elongated coins display a set of letters near the narrow end of the coin. These are the initials of someone involved in the coin’s appearance, such as the designer, original engraver or the ...

1. They Have Been Around For Two Centuries The first elongated coins were reportedly made by a Viennese jeweler in Austria in 1818. The first penny press was a hand-cranked jewelry mill.