{"id":16364,"date":"2016-05-26T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2016-05-23T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T17:00:44","slug":"niagara-falls-penny-press-elongated-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/26\/niagara-falls-penny-press-elongated-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls penny press (elongated penny)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/26\/penny-souvenirs-part-2\/\">I posted about finding a penny souvenir<\/a>. I&#8217;ve seen lots of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennycollector.com\/\">Penny Press\/Elongated Coin machines<\/a> when visiting Florida, but I don&#8217;t see too many of them around here. Add to that the fact that Canada no longer uses pennies, and these machines just aren&#8217;t that popular around here any more. When I have seen them, they have copper blanks that look like pennies that are used for the souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I don&#8217;t know where this coin came from (most likely Canada), but it is clear that it was an American penny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=16365\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16365\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16365\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/26\/niagara-falls-penny-press-elongated-penny\/niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny.jpg?fit=414%2C500\" data-orig-size=\"414,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny.jpg?fit=414%2C500\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16365\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny.jpg?resize=372%2C450\" alt=\"niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny\" width=\"372\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny.jpg?resize=372%2C450 372w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/niagara_falls_canada_collector_penny.jpg?w=414 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few years ago I posted about finding a penny souvenir. I&#8217;ve seen lots of these Penny Press\/Elongated Coin machines when visiting Florida, but I don&#8217;t see too many of them around here. Add to that the fact that Canada no longer uses pennies, and these machines just aren&#8217;t that popular around here any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[2133,1237,10774,10775,4626,2130],"class_list":["post-16364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-souvenirs","tag-american","tag-canada","tag-penny","tag-penny-press","tag-penny-souvenir","tag-souvenir"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}