ELONGATED PENNIES
In his song ‘Texas 1947’ Guy Clark sings ‘I got a nickel smashed flatter than a dime by a mad dog, runaway, red-silver streamline train.’ The romance of the song is undeniable: a glimpse of a bygone age, of a way of life now largely gone. And it was in that bygone age of steel and steam that elongated pennies were born.
No one really knows why or exactly when the hobby began. Perhaps it started
