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Valued Member
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Ok does anyone know why people put holes in coins?
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Some people do it just "to do it" but most do it to make necklaces or some other kind of hanging jewerly. When I find one while doing my half dollar boxes I make a necklace for one of my Grandkids. They think it's kinda cool to have a necklace made from their Pawpaw's coins
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Necklaces and key chains.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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on old large cents they used to nail it on the bannister for good luck when they built the house or barn back in the old days
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Thats pretty neat there Bryan...I think I'm gonna christen my new apartment with a linocln....;)
my kid cousin actually wears a dateless Buffalo around his next everyday. He found it maybe two months ago when I bought him a box of nickels to look through. That was his first and only buffalo find while CRH. Kinda cool if you ask me
--gayr
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Does anyone remember those wallets that had clips on the inside intended for keys? Well about 2 years ago I came across one at a house sale that contained holed coins instead of keys. I purchased the wallet for $2.00. Inside the wallet was a holed Franklin half, pre 1964 Roosevelt dime, Buffalo nickel, Lincoln Memorial cent, and a pre 1964 Washington quarter. I guess the original owner was afraid of loosing his pocket pieces? |
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Target practice!  |
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So you don't loose the really small ones....  |
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Does anyone remember those wallets that had clips on the inside intended for keys?
My grandfather used one of those up until the day he died a year or so ago, thanks for bringing back some memories of him |
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Fractional California and other privately produced gold coins, .25 and .50, and maybe U.S. gold dollar coins were holed so they could be strung together, their very small size made them very easy to lose.
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wow, I actuall still have one of those wallets with the loops inside.
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At the time it happened it was probably cool ... today you want to cry.   |
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United States
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Un-Super Dave, you freaked me out there. So sad... I've seen worse though... a High Relief Saint-Gaudens, holed! |
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United States
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In the good old days we used to drill holes in Gold and Silver coins for the material. If you constantly drilled holes in coins or chipped the edge you could accumulate a decent amount of Gold and Silver. This was sold to Jewlers. This was way back when our monitary system was full of those coins and no one thought any thing of them as being a collectable. Back in the 30's and 40's even that little bit of money was a lot.
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In the States prior to 1857 whenever a circulating 8R or other large silver coin was suspected of being fake or underweight by bankers, they would hole it and put it on a large key chain-like ring which was used as a reference of "bad" types in circulation.
Supposedly, in Germany during the nineteenth century it was status symbol to wear a large holed silver coin from the previous century or before. The holes coins were worn to signify that one was of an elite, "old money family."
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I have a group that have 2 holes , 180 degrees apart~ A bracelet I am sure, but the links are gone. I don't even want to check the dates~ Seated half dime and dimes. Once my chinese dentist friend asked me to look at his wife's wedding belt ( although he had a different name for it) made of AU or BU gold coins holed and linked together with gold links and buckle(?) It was her mothers originally, and made primarily of 1890's - 1900's coronet $5 and $10 pieces, all holed. His mother and dad ran a market locally from the 1930's to 1970 and threw every silver dollar they got into their "IRA" ( 5 gallon buckets). Then the family had a blood feud and his brother took the buckets so I never saw them....I always took it with a grain of salt...Sometimes I daydream about the buckets :) |
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Posted 03/23/2008 12:50 am
