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I am seeing many ex-Mounted coins (used as jewelry in the past) primarily European Crowns. What does this do to the coin value, assuming a gentile mark at top of the coin.
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Zohar
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Gentile marks knock maybe 80% of the value off, Jewish marks 85%. Unless they're Chinese Juice, which may increase the value, especially on Trade dollars. Guy named Stockton repairs this kind of damage as long as it's not close to a date. You still have to advertise it as a repaired coin, tho. |
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It really depends on how they were mounted. I've seen coins that were practically welded into a necklace or bracelet. Others just pushed into a slot made to hold them. Some coins have had the actual metal melted into a frame. Usually those that have soldered or welded connections are ruined completely as a coin.
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biggfredd, it took me a minute.
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I just hate to see this all together. I can understand if it was done 100 years ago but not today. There is an antique store up the road from where I work and the guy that owns it makes money clips out of older coins and ruins them by soldering them right to the piece. Most of the coins he uses are Buffalo nickels, Morgans and Peace dollars. I have tried to talk to him before but all it does is makes him mad and determined to make more. The funny part is how he thinks the new money clip now is worth more because of the coin attached. The phrase 5 pounds of $%^& into a 2 pound bag comes to mind for some reason when I think of what he does. |
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Are you willing to pay him more for the coins than he's getting as jewelry? If not, then he's doing the right thing.
A better approach would be to trade him higher grade common pieces for any scarce ones he is going to use. He gets a nicer product, and you save a rare coin from damage.
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I still have a set of Cuban silver coins welded into a necklace. Do you have any idea how dificult it is to find Cuban coins? On ebay, I see no Cuban coins before 1910, compared to 28 SVDBs. |
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Posted 08/26/2008 07:45 am
