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With the hope of preserving some early internet posts, we've uploaded the early posts linked here. As time passes, some become prophetic others humorous, many of interest historically. We have only been able to save some of the mid-1990s USENET elongated coin discussion archives. If you have or can locate others, we would greatly appreciate your help in sharing them. Just send Boomer a note and we'll find a way to add them here.

Disneyland pressed penny history and collecting has been a passion of ours for many years. Today collectors can visit and email ParkPennies.com. But, the hobby of collecting Disney elongated coins started even before the internet was popular. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, fellow collectors met at penny press machines, and Disneyana Shows and joined organizations like TEC to trade elongated coins and news. Then in the mid 1990s, the internet made it possible for elongated coin collectors to organize in a new way. Letters and phone calls gave way to emails. Information could be gathered, traded, and from that collaboration, Disneyland elongated coin guides started to take shape via spreadsheet files. In the late 1990s that early spreadsheet file, with the hope it could be easily shared and updated, became our first "web site". It was a five megabyte site hosted by ATT for "free" as part of our dial-up service. Two or three web sites and 15+ years later, here we are. :-)

Over time, early posts from some of the many early contributors started to disappear. Luckily, we had copies of some early posts from USENET and thought it prudent to upload them here so that they might give credit to the efforts of early members of "The [Email] List" and maybe bring back a bit of nostalgia. They mention the meetings or "meets" that were organized via "The List" and held at Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyland, PoFolks... Early "Elongated Coin Catalogs" were mailed (TXT)as many collectors didn't have internet access.

The USENET Elongate Coin Collectors' messages make for large files. So we have linked them one by one via the drop down box on each page:

The posts may also be searched via the search box at the top of the Disney Pressed Penny Home Page.
Please let us know if you have files to contribute.

You may also be interested in:
Mr. Vance Fowler, Father of the coin operated penny press.
Early Disneyland Penny Press Machine History & Acknowledgments

Other early Disney pressed penny news, posts...

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1990s Pressed Penny Collecting Finds The Internet! The USENET BBS Bulletin Board System

1990s Pressed Penny Collecting Finds The Internet!
The USENET BBS Bulletin Board System