Coin Jewellery - Is It Wrong?

An intersting topic.

The Royal Canadian Mint sells jewelry, that it makes / adapts for that specific purpose.

I bought my wife a .999 silver coin ($3 dollar face value, with a Swarovski crystal), and it came with a hoop that tightened around the coin so it could be worn.

The mint did 12 of these coins, one for each month with the corresponding coloured crystal.

As for taking a standard circulation coin and making jewelery, that is not cool. Not to mention against the law (in Canada at least).

Just my 2C

Here is the only coin that my wife owns. She got it from her grandmother. Drives me crazy, I don't like it one bit. I want to free that coin so bad but she won't let me. And my grandmother has a double eagle in a similar necklace. I can't bear to look at it :(

the other thing about a "common" coin is that it might not be so common after all. Think of the morgan dollars--- a comon date, rare VAM can be worth lots... or the lowly cent- a WAM or the infamous 1955 doubled die...

Point is, sometimes even a common-date coin can be worth saving and it's all about the identification... and nobody will ever have the knowledge to say with 100% certainty that any given coin is not and will not be special for some reason. People are still discovering things about coins minted 100 years ago.


BUT if a person thinks like this too much they would literally never ever spend any coinage and would likely perish in a coin avalanche. I say if someone else wants to deface their coins, more power to them it just makes mine rarer.

My women prefer diamonds set in 10k gold (white preferred).

As for bolos and belt buckles, I think about any gold coin or real silver dollar works but it is not my style. I think it is a Southwest US thing and cool for that look.

I think a clamp or pinch style mounting is best. In the end if it is exposed it will wear or oxidize or both.

This does reduce the available supply but that is inevitable in any case.

24k gold or fine silver for jewelery is a bit of a waste but I don't really have anything against it.

You should check with tool manufacturers too. For example cutting through a Silver coin with a saber saw and the blade gets all gummed up with Silver, the saw police may arrest you.
Your cutting through a Silver Dollar with a table saw and cut off your fingers. Again, the Saw Police may follow you to the hospital and give you a saw ticket.

All in all I still think it's worse to melt coins than to make jewlery from them. As seen here the examples of coins made into something still exist. A melted coin is gone forever.

It is people like you that will preserve history and I appreciate it. If you are investing in gold, why not have it be a coin at spot?
It kinda brings to light the folly of it all. What good is gold if it never gets put to use?

I'm new here as you can see. I'm a novice collector, with not too much in way of a collection (blame that on being a college student), but a decent amount of knowledge. I've been around for a while, but I have always just read, and had no real urge to post anything. Great site! However, this topic is very relevant to me.

I've made a few rings out silver halves (a 64 Kennedy, and a couple of common walking libertys). To me, these turn a cool coin into a very valuable item. Had I left these coins be, they would now be sitting in my room to be seen only on occasion (when I was home from school.) The best ring I have made was from a 42 walking liberty. The inside of the ring has preserved the "1942", "Liberty", and "Half Dollar", so it is still easily distinguishable as a 42 silver half dollar.

The ring itself is simple, but very attractive, and I wear it 24/7. I take a lot of pride in the hours/days it took to make it, and the best part is that since I see it every day I am constantly reminded of the coin, how I came to own it, and the work it took to shape it- thus making it much more valuable to me than a silver coin sitting in a box at home.

I'm not saying everyone should do it, but I think it's a cool thing to do- and a cool thing to own afterwards.