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A Souvenir Penny is Priceless

When is a mere penny priceless? When it preserves your precious, irreplaceable memories. A souvenir penny, elongated and indelibly impressed with a representation of a place you have visited can memorialize some of your most enjoyable moments with friends and family. No simple token, an engraved zinc and copper keepsake commemorating an event, place, person or relationship records and keeps bright some of the highlights of your life. Pressed pennies are inexpensive to acquire, yet make excellent heirlooms to pass down through the generations of your family.

Fittingly, the first souvenir penny to, as it were, be pressed into service rolled through the mill into a lucky hand in 1893, at the Chicago World’s Fair or, more accurately, the World’s Columbian Exposition, mounted in Chicago, Illinois. Its organizers timed the Exposition to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the New World. Patrons of the Fair were able to elongate and impress pennies with four distinct designs. Pennies may have been the prevailing choice of coins to press into a Columbian Exposition souvenir, but some, like contemporary elongated coin enthusiasts, chose to press other coins- even a $3 gold piece!

With well over a century of souvenir penny production graphically representing historic landmarks, groundbreaking events, political movements, happy holidays, inventions that raised our standard of living, prayers and our favorite animals, it is no wonder that elongated coins have become hot collectibles. To be assured of authentic, collector’s grade pressed pennies, however, it is best to research your interest and deal with a reliable source of information such as The Penny Machine Company (PMC) at PennyBiz.com. PMC designs and manufactures world-class penny pressers, expertly customized to suit any event or location.