Friday, August 21, 2009

The Infamous Elongated Pennies

Here are a few of my pennies that I have acquired recently in my travels.
These are from the C.W. Parker Museum in the post above.
From the OZ Museum in Wamego, KS

These were from a sports Memorabilia store in the Mall of America in MN. I have hunted these things down for a few years, but when I went to get them, the machine had been moved to an unknown location. I think I did that twice, but finally, they resurfaced, and I was able to get them. Sometimes the long wait makes the victory so much sweeter!

2 comments:

Libby said...

Nice to know that I'm not the only one who collects these little souvenirs! Albert thinks I'm silly..

Megan said...

I think it's great you take your kids to such out of the way fun places. There IS something to be said for Quantity. Sure you can go to Disneyland once every three years, but its little inexpensive trips like that that really build a family. So gold star for yoU! And I thought you'd be interested to know that my Word Verification word is "butlics." What is THAT?

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