A blog about Elongated Coins

According to Rosato’s Encyclopedia of the Modern Elongated, the initials CH belong to Bud Hicks. No other information listed in the encyclopedia. Could be the same Bud Hicks as the former President of the Fresno Numismatic Society.

Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29, 2024 at the age of 100. Here is PON-123 on a cent and dime.

Found an old Lord’s Prayer and had trouble identifying it without the complete number of dots in the border. To figure it out, I drew an oval to continue the dot border and added the missing dots. It looked like 66 dots was the answer. I also counted the punctuation marks because that helps sometimes.…

Elongated coin of Ron Dominguez available to Disneyland cast members at his 1994 retirement party and for a short time after. parkpennies.com catalog number CM0001