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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Discussions in another thread today prompted me to start a new thread for coins as art, coin jewellery and coin cut outs or badges. What do you have that's a bit outside the coin collecting square? I picked these up just last week and for $20 each they are an interesting novelty. I doubt you'll ever see me wearing them -note the cleaning particularly on the obverse is glaringly obvious.   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I think you should wear them as ear-rings.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Wouldn't take long wearing them as earrings for you ear lobes to be hanging on the ground  If these are from Gerry then I saw them and they are very well done. Some coin art/jewellery is pretty crude! |
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Australia
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Wouldn't take long wearing them as earrings for you ear lobes to be hanging on the ground If you take a close look at our Prime Minister's earlobes I suspect she spent some time wearing something heavy like these from her ears. |
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Australia
215 Posts |
Looking at another thread that had some pretty cool coin cutouts has inspired me to attempt it myself sometime soon.
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
515 Posts |
I actually wear this one quite a bit.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I like the 50's,prefer the 2nd one & the electric blue looks good on the MOR's too. I'm flat out gettig this off the Mrs to take a pic,she wears it a lot.   |
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Canada
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I personally think that it's very inspired to take someone's complete design and cop out by putting it in a bezel or drilling a hole through it (even coin rings are blah!). I'd much rather see an homage to a coin, or use small elements within a coin, but straight stealing a piece like that is just a big yawn to my artistic intellect.
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Valued Member
Australia
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i have a few different 50c examples, some similar to yours TPP. each time I pick up something like this the missus goes crazy cause they are 'junk' according to her ;-) will have to wait till she's out to get some pics up ;-)
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Australia
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i should add that these, in my humble opinion, are novelties, and as such are not part of my 'collection'. I don't go out of my way to find them, don't always buy them when I do see them (hard to imagine, but yes, even if they are 50c) and certainly don't pay much for them... fun trinkets only deserve a trinket price tag...
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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fun trinkets only deserve a trinket price tag...  In the case of silver or gold melt value. I saw mine on the bay and wanted it because it is made from my favorite design pre decimal coin. The main problem I have with it is that it was made from a very high grade coin,the obverse portrait would still grade EF  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The sovereign looks like 1938 but has lizzy on the obverse  Is the 3 actually a 5 and my eyes are deceiving me? |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The sovereign looks like 1938 but has lizzy on the obverse Is the 3 actually a 5 and my eyes are deceiving me? Looks like 1958 to me  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I thought I was losing it.... maybe I never had it  |
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Australia
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Australia
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may have posted these before, think they were a coupla quid each   |
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Posted 05/29/2012 07:00 am
