How to wreck a coin

I got this coin and they must have made some kind of jewelry out of it.  




It would have been a great coin dated from 1838-1866.
If you think they wrecked the front wait till you see what they did to the other side.




They ground the coin down and engraved this side.  

Where did you get it?

I know, tell me about it, this one is also wrecked...

My eyes, they burn  

It's common to find a lot of British holed coins in New Zealand.  Apparently the emigrants on the boats would drill holes in their coins, attach a string and hang them around their neck for safekeeping during the long journey to the antipodes.

When I see a holed coin, I tried to think of the history of it to ease the pain of having a low grade coin!

The engraved side looks better than the soldered side - at least the engraving there is "complete"...

Dear Ken6528
 I believe what you have is a love charm, not sure if that's the name. In that time frame men would make a piece of jewelry to show their love, and silver coins were used a lot. Back in the day there were no mails with jewelry stores. They made a lot of pins, some are very nice animals, landscapes, and engraved letters. I hope this makes you feel better, what you have is someone token of love to someone.
                 yours daryl

Although what you have is pretty bad, this truly sickens me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-LOT-18th-Century-GERMANY-PRUSSIA-Coins-Souvenir-Spoons-THALER-Silver-NR-/390684201583?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item5af697d26f

I feel a little better knowing it is a love charm.  If you look at the engraving on the back it is nicely done. It was probably done in the 1800's.

This was part of one of the bulk lots I bought. Got excited when I saw the back..




Turned it over.. (click on it to see the dmg! )




Uh!. Perhaps it's a variation?

Quote: gsl91This was part of one of the bulk lots I bought. Got excited when I saw the back..




Turned it over.. (click on it to see the dmg! )




Uh!. Perhaps it's a variation?

 Hahaha, that's great!

very fetching......Sherlock Kruger

  As Christmas is in a few weeks ...



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-on-Silver-Cut-Coin-Ethiopian-Lion-Head-Earrings-/370299749914

http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/pop-culture-coins/

I'm afraid this will also not be appreciated....

Quote: torontokubaI know, tell me about it, this one is also wrecked...

Give it a quick rinse in acetone, it'll be fine. I would suggest oven cleaner but some self righteous prig is sure to assume I'm promoting child abuse.

Did you ever read the thread at Coin Talk about using dog slobber to clean coins? Tried it. My coins look great but my dog is all cold and stiff.

Another one ...



http://www.ebay.com/itm/1999-DELEWARE-QUARTER-di-CUT-DESIGN-GOLDEN-COLOR-junk-drawer-/121222445585?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item1c396bba11

I guess it all depends on what you are going to do with coins after you wreck them......





or of course this (from the Utrecht geldmuseum)    



so I think some of the wrecking could be excused      

ready for more wreckage?

A chair made out of welded coins:




floor made out of coins? (They copied the floor of the geldmuseum in Uthrecht in Netherlands which had this type floor for ages)



and no more comment on this ghastly item....



tell me when you are ready to see more horror pictures:)

Ghastly item, you mean awesome item.  That coin measuring tape is the boss!!

Here are some more wrecked coins for art:

portrait of queen made out of 1 pennies...



coin sculpture


another very kitch coin furniture


another horrible coin dress


coin wrench


coin gaming cards




another coin floor out of 1 cents


you may like this highly spendable banknote dress better though:)

Call me a barbarian (it's better than wife beater) but I like them. Making low value coins into works of art is to be applauded. These coins tend to be so common that using them in this way isn't going to deprive a collector at all. Now, if I was making a pair of pants out of Una and the Lion, well that would be different.

I've got a pretty large collection of bracelets, rings, buttons, cufflinks and pendants made from coins, mostly Victorian silver. I pick them up whenever I can because I like them and they tend to be cheap, which I also like. I've got a few of those Lucite things made from coins too, an uncirculated 1964 US set made into a paperweight. Bought it for a dollar (3 silver coins!!) - makes a nice set with my letter opener and mail rack. I'm trying to persuade a lady friend to part with a HUGE 20 inch square Lucite block with several hundred 1970 cents tumbling throughout. She wants to keep it, quite understandably, so if charm fails I'm going to try roofies or that good old stand by, duct tape and a ballpein hammer.

There are a few which I would rather have the coins untouched (a bracelet made from groats for example) but I'd rather keep them than see them go to the smelter. Some are only partially intact so I'm always looking for similar items to combine.

For quite some time now I've been collecting dateless Buffalo nickels and worn pre war banknotes. Once my wandering feet get to the NC mountains and take permanent root we are going to make a breakfast table with the nickels and a kitchen floor from the banknotes. Several of the members here have contributed to these projects for which I'm most grateful. I have enough wheat cents and vintage stamps to do something similar but that might be overkill.

I have a sword crafted from bounded old Chinese coins.

Quote: WHATEVERI have a sword crafted from bounded old Chinese coins.

I guess yours is like this one I mentioned in October (it sold for £37 + £3 postage) ...
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic22916.html#p194898

I rather like it when coins become parts of costume and culture.... take a look at the third picture... The photo shows a lady from Yemen wearing Ottoman silver as part of her costume. Possibly the silver is part of her dowry. Ottomans left Yemen in 1917; so that is a 100 year old costume, that has been passed from mother to daughter generation after generation...

This brings us to this wedding ceremony hat for the bride:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/m/money_hat.aspx
I have copied the following info from the above address:
This headdress or 'money hat' (wuqayat al-darahem) was made commercially by Bethlehem women for the use of villagers in the hills of southern Palestine. The original embroidery on the crown has been overlaid with more recent embroidery. The headdress was worn in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century during the wedding ceremony, especially for the 'going out to the well' ceremony when the bride appeared in public as a married woman for the first time. The headdress displayed the pride and status of the family, and was passed down through the generations.
This headdress has clearly had many owners, each of whom added coins or trinkets. The most numerous coins are Ottoman Turkish, dating from the reign of Mahmud I (1730-54) to that of Mahmud II (1808-39), with further silver and copper eighteenth- and nineteenth-century coins, and a Romanian 2-lei piece dated 1924. Other ornaments include sixteenth-century German brass counters, a brass army badge, triangular white metal amulets and various glass, plastic, imitation pearl and coral beads and buttons. The headdress also features crescents, 'hands of Fatimah' (against the evil eye) and a pink plastic hand.

This shows why so many old coins have holes in our collections and how coinage or tokens loose their original purposes and become something else entirely... The human story here is obviously more than a single coin may have... The first message has a coin that had holes and welding marks showing it was turned into something else once. As collectors of coins we would want to include a coin that has minimal damage to our collections. Yet, when you consider the human history that has been loaded onto that single coin, the wrecked coin becomes a cultural monument. Not a coin but ethnography by itself...

Quote: ZacUKI guess yours is like this one I mentioned in October (it sold for £37 + £3 postage) ...
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic22916.html#p194898

Wow, I think this is the auction I won it from lol

'Small world'