Coin Jewellery - Is It Wrong?

I believe that necklace is called a Bolo tie.

A De- ugly'd dollar
I look at it as advertising the fact that dollar coins still exist to the general public....Perhaps people will become more aware of their countries coins through my wanton destruction of them. Besides it turns a $1 into a $15 coin

Contrary to that is your forgetting that our population is growing massively. With now well over 300,000,000 people in the USA alone, many coins considered common are really going to become a low mintage if only in the millions. As an example the 2009D Roosevelt dime at 49+ millions and compare with the population. But what percent will it be in few more years when the population hits 400 or 500 million people. And too as the amount of coin collectors increases proportionately, again, those so called common coins will not be so common them.
It is unfortunate but as Sap pointed out

It's all good.

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.