U4 Elongated Coin Requested Nationwide

SYRACUSE, Indiana - December 4, 2007 - U4 made an Elongated Coin (EC) for the Elkhart Fair. You can see it here.

It takes 22 tons of pressure to imprint the design of the U4 Logo, dotted border and text within the border. A detailed description of the design is a horizontal elongated coin with text in the dotted border centered above the U4 logo saying “www.whatisu4.com” and centered below the U4 logo is “All Service, One Company, One Bill”. The elongated coin is about one and a half inches wide and three quarters of an inch high.

Rich Hays, the Marketing Director for U4 collects and sells EC. He submitted a note to TEC News, the newsletter for The Elongated Collector www.tecnews.org, that said anyone could get a free EC by sending a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope to “Smash Me A U4EC”, PO Box 514, North Webster IN 46555.

“The letters started to flood the PO Box!!” said Hays. He continued, “We have received requests from Maine to California. It has been really fun sharing this with everyone.”

At the 1894 World Fair, the first EC were introduced. Now they are collected by people all over the world. You most likely have seen these coins before. They are produced in a machine where you put in 50 cents and a penny and you get the penny back smashed.

The machine will be placed at the U4 Store, 200 E Pickwick Dr, Syracuse, IN 46567 after the 1st of the year. Bring your own pennies and roll your own U4EC at the U4 Store. Store hours are Monday through Friday 8 am to 6 pm.