elongated cent
My friend Jarid sent me this penny with the seal of the Town Of Greenland, NH stamped on it. Jarid knows I grew up in Greenland so I imagine this caught his eye and he sent it along. The crazy thing is…and Jarid doesn’t know…my Dad had these made up to sell at the Centennial celebration back in the 1970′s. A quick phone call this afternoon revealed that he’d had about 500 made at a cost of 35 bucks. He sold enough to cover his cost that weekend, and at this point has about fifty left that he is slowly unloading at coin shows.
My mother pointed out that her Grandfather is the one who designed the seal that is featured on the back of the penny. It is an old Puritan Pilgrim with a gundalow in the background, a trading ship on the Great Bay in New Hampshire.
Ill have to get Jarid to tell me where he found this penny. He is living in Seattle, so if he got it up there, that’s a long way for it to travel…
There’s an intuitive Greenland-Seattle connection, so it probably just appeared
Comment by mimsy lou — February 9, 2007 @ 5:37 am