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texasmick Pillar of the Community United States 751 Posts	Posted 11/24/2006 11:19 pm I was wondering what y'all think the term "jewelry coin" means. I always thought it meant a coin that was turned into jewelry, either by kind means (e.g. a bezel) or unkind (e.g. solder). Subsequently, such a coin might be rescued and might have damage as a consequence. However, a few weeks back, someone was offering "jewelry coin" Trade dollars on th'bay. I wrote him to ask for a description of the damage and he wrote back that the coin was a fake--made as a piece of jewelry. Seemed to think I was pretty stupid. So I'm asking for a show of hands--how do you understand the term? Report this Post to the Staff

Bryan1315 Bedrock of the Community United States 14454 Posts	Posted 11/24/2006 11:45 pm I beleive he mis-used the term jewelery peice, because I have seen some coins in a top TPG slab labeled ex-jewelery Report this Post to the Staff
snowman Pillar of the Community United States 1840 Posts	Posted 11/25/2006 08:52 am I would have figured it meant the same thing you did. I would assume that using real coins as jewelry certainly would predate counterfeiting coins for the express purpose of making jewelry. Report this Post to the Staff
CiScO Valued Member United States 458 Posts	Posted 11/25/2006 6:58 pm I have sold REAL Gold coins as a jewelry piece. After I got burnt if u will, on a couple--actually 3 gold $20 Saints, after being 'rejected' by PCGS AND NGC as these coins were, in no particular order as, "whizzed", "cleaned' and "Cleaned" I could NOt witha clear mind resell them on ebay as a RAW coin. So I spent some extra money, bought 3 bezels and sold them (2) under the jewelry coin thingies. ! I sold to a coin jeweler at the FUN show, the 2nd I sold on ebay, and finally, the 3rd 1915 S (which BTW shocked me that it was cleaned I was not able to detect this but NGC did) I kept. Bought me a real gaudy, heavy gold chain, which by the cost more than 4 times the coin and I kepted this beauty--So, IMHO, NOT all coin jewelry is fake. If it is, it should be posted in the auction--So this leads me to think what happened to you that ahhh, You better OR should ask if this coin is REAL or A FAKE--BUT when I sell, ITS real--Oh yea-- Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 11/25/2006 9:35 pm No, there is something that you should pay attention to. This is in particular common to the Asian market and you will get burned if you think coin jewellery is what you think it is. While most of us would think coin jewellery is to take a genuine coin and "damage" it for the use of jewlleries, sure that might be a problem and that I will leave it for debate, but on the other hand, the darker side of coin jewellery is that, popular coins such as the Saints are actually "duplicated" for jewellery purposes! What this means is that a "replica" is created just for the sake of jewellery, since using original coins are really expensive and therefore, if you think coin jewellery is damaged coins used for jewellery, you can be terribly mistaken!!! My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16832 Posts	Posted 11/26/2006 07:50 am I would distinguish a "jewelry coin" as a reproduction made for jewelry purposes, while terms like "coin jewelry", "ex jewelry" or "ex mount" would be a genuine coin "damaged" by mounting it into some form of jewelry. quote: I would assume that using real coins as jewelry certainly would predate counterfeiting coins for the express purpose of making jewelry. Yes, but not by much. Jewellry copies of coinage have been around for as long as coinage has been seen as a symbol of wealth - certainly way back to ancient times. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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