What Are These Elongated Coins?

These are the souvenirs made by the machines that will imprint a design on your coin by pressing the coin between two metal rollers thereby elongating the coin and impressing the design on one side (there are machines that will imprint information on both sides of the coin but all the ones that Disney has are one-sided).

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There are ones to elongate pennies, nickels and quarters (no dimes). The cost for a penny machine is 2 quarters plus the one penny that will be pressed. A nickel requires 3 quarters plus a nickel and the quarter ones require a total of 5 quarters. The machines at Disneyland are manufactured by Eurolink and are variously known as elongated flattened pressed rolled smashed squished stretched coins.

ISN'T IT ILLEGAL TO MUTILATE COINS?

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The following is stated on the Railroad Mickey, Pirates, Rajah Mints and several other coin machines:

U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331: Prohibiting, among other things, the fraudulent alteration and mutilation of U.S. or foreign coins. This statute does not, however, prohibit the mutilation of coins if done without fraudulent intent or if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently.

So, it is perfectly correct to say you are a collector of mutilated coins!

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