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All I have is an Ike belt buckle from years past. I wonder why those coins were chosen?
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Yeah. I'm not sure why they were chosen. I see others like it on ebay but not any that are plated. Accept a bulle one. |
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United States
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I would have liked it 100000x more if all the coins weren't cleaned!
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Yeah. There so clean that before I got into collecting I just thought they were fake.
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In the 70s it was common to polish coins and encase them in Lucite for all sorts of purposes from paperweights to toilet seats to apparently belt buckles. In fact, finding a mid century coin encased in Lucie that hasn't been wizzed is the rarity. Cool belt buckle  What I find Strange is that they used the obverse and reverse of the same coin on the buff but it's like they are saying the wheat is the reverse to the IHC. I wonder if it was intentional or purposeful  Edited by Cascade
09/26/2015 7:46 pm
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Sort of makes me wonder why those coins and why those dates.
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Very nice. |
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United States
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Cascade - They still do it now, minus maybe the cleaning part, or here and there. They make coin toilet seats and put Morgan $'s in them. Can't help but think you are indirectly pooping on a morgan, or at least sitting on one while you do your bizz
Edited by CoinHuntingDrew
09/26/2015 10:01 pm
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United States
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I got a nice money clip with a Canadian 1958 BC silver Dollar as a pocket Piece that is cool that my grandson gave me since I helped him become a future coin collector. I helped him out with my first LWC set from 1909-1958 missing 10 keys that I started when I 10 yrs old. and got hunting from my paper route in Iowa when cents you could find. About the age I did. And will get it all someday. And probably buy from You guys |
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Jewellers will polish all metal on their work simply out of tradition - something that most cannot escape because it feels right and they think that other jewelers will laugh at them if they present an unpolished metal. Personally, I hate this practice when it comes to coins because it shows their ignorance on coin collecting. It just shows that you can't know it all. The polishing is not even done well on the coins. It wasn't even a mere buffing on an uncirculated surface, more likely it was a prepolish and then a buff on a circulated coin. Evidence is in the Native's hairlines, the wheat, the headdress, and the buffalo's hide - everywhere. Normally it's considered damage to fade or blur lines to the point that the detail is lost. That's like grinding out an engraving - it's sacrilege and sloppy work. The rest is nice though. What I find strange is that there are two Buffalo nickels showing each major side, but with the pennies there's one "Indian" and one wheatie, so a non-collector looking in would think that there are only two coin types being displayed. |
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well for this purpose the coins could have been cleaned, or by any jeweler, because you need a clean surface to solder to free of anything that will prevent adhesion. Means the side unseen could be ruined with silver solder or tin solder holding the coin face onto the back of the buckel.
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I would think the coins are already encased in the Lucite in a form that fit the frame or the block is sanded and polished to fit the buckle and the back of the Lucite with coins in it is painted black. Then the whole thing is glued to the metal frame
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09/27/2015 1:17 pm
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Huh, pretty cool! I've seen some of those with Morgans in them instead.
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