Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Nashville, Tennessee is home to a machine that makes 8 pressed pennies.  Designs include Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrex, Patsy Cline, Beethoven, and more! Madame Tussauds in Nashville is a must-see if you are a country music fan.  It features lifelike wax figures of 50 iconic musical superstars.  You can pose and have your picture taken with legends like Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, and Minnie Pearl. Madame Tussauds in Nashville is split into 10 different sections that takes you on a journey through America’s music history.  If you are at Opry Mills Mall, it’s ..read more

The Bass Pro Shops at Opry Mills Mall in Nashville, Tennessee has a machine that makes 4 different pressed pennies. Designs include the Bass Pro Shops logo, a deer, a black bear, and a guitar. Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World is a massive sporting goods store chain that’s worth a stop if you are in the area.  Kids will enjoy the aquarium and the stuffed animals scattered around the store. Want to plan a visit to to the Nashville Bass Pro Shops store? Check out their website here. Nashville Bass Pro Shops Pressed Penny Designs Bass Pro Shops Logo Guitar Deer Black Bear While you are here, be su ..read more

The Aquarium restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee has a machine with 4 pressed pennies.  Designs include the restaurant logo, Sharkey the shark, Octavius the octopus, and Scooter the seahorse. At the Aquarium Underwater Dining Experience, diners feast while surrounded by 200,000 gallons of water filled with sharks, stingrays, and other fish.  This unique restaurant offers a variety of seafood dishes and steaks.  The Aquarium restaurant is at the Opry Mills Mall, right next to the Opryland Hotel. Want to plan a visit to the Nashville Aquarium restaurant? Check out their website here. Nashville ..read more

The Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee has a machine that makes 4 pressed pennies. Designs include the Nashville skyline, guitars and microphone, the Tennessee state outline, and the Parthenon. The Opryland Hotel is located right next to Opry Mills Mall and is a beautiful place to stay on your next trip to Nashville.  Even if  you aren’t staying at the hotel, it is well worth a visit to see the 9 acres of gardens and all the water features. We were only in town overnight for a marching band competition and didn’t stay at the Opryland Hotel.  However, we were planning to get all t ..read more

Check out the elongated coins that TEC members received with their October 2019 newsletter and learn how you can receive join and receive exclusive pressed pennies for your collection! It’s always fun to get the latest issue of the The Elongated Collectors (TEC) newsletter in the mail.  The newsletter is chock-full of informative articles about collecting elongated pennies.  Plus it is so exciting to see what member-exclusive coins will be included. About the October 2019 TEC issue October’s newsletter was a great one with 24 pages.  Highlights from this issue are included below. There were ..read more

Made famous by a song from the 1940’s, the Chattanooga Choo Choo is a fun place to visit with a pressed penny to collect. If you are in the area, I highly recommend planning a stop at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.  This iconic car is actually now a hotel – you can spend the night in one of its cars! Even if you aren’t staying the night, the Choo Choo is free to visit and take some pictures.  In addition to checking out the train, you can check out the Glenn Miller Gardens and visit Station Street for shopping and dining. Want to spend the night in one of the Chattanooga Choo Choo cars? Check ..read more

This fun Space Mountain pressed penny set can be made at the Tomorrowland Light & Power Co.  Keep reading to learn more about this unique set based on the popular Magic Kingdom roller coaster. Space Mountain is a dark space-themed roller coaster housed inside a futuristic looking mountain. You are seated in cars that look like rockets. After leaving the loading station, you are transported through a hyperspace tunnel and then taken up the lift hill. From there the fun begins as the roller coaster travels at high speed navigating twists and turns through the dark interior that is only ..read more

This fun elongated coin from Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is a bit different because it is pressed on a quarter. The design features Mickey Mouse in a Space Mountain space ship. Elongated Coin Description: This pressed quarter depicts astronaut Mickey Mouse riding Space Mountain. Text on the smashed quarter: © Disney / Magic Kingdom Coin Orientation: vertical Border: dotted Status: retired Pressed Coin Machine Location: formerly at the Tomorrowland Light & Power Co. in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort Related: Astronaut Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse Pressed Pennies U ..read more

This cute pressed penny set features Minnie and Mickey Mouse as astronauts. Keep reading to learn more about these fun elongated pennies from Walt Disney World resort. Astronaut Mickey Mouse Pressed Penny Elongated Penny Description: This pressed penny depicts Mickey Mouse in a space suit holding an astronaut’s helmet in his left hand. Text on the smashed penny: © Disney Penny Orientation: vertical Border: dotted Status: available at the time this listing was posted Pressed Penny Machine Location: Port Orleans Resort Riverside in the lobby Astronaut Minnie Mouse Pressed Penny Elongated Penn ..read more

The Indianapolis Zoo has 7 pressed penny machines scattered throughout their exhibits. You can make a total of 28 elongated pennies with fun designs featuring the animals you will see on your visit. We’ve done a lot of traveling to Indiana this summer.  Most recently we took a day trip to the Indianapolis Zoo.  It’s not a large zoo, but it does have an underwater dolphin viewing dome and a dolphin show that made it worth the drive. The Indianapolis Zoo is divided into 5 main sections – the oceans, the forest, the plains, the desert, and flights of fancy.  There are over 300 species of animal ..read more