lil help????

[king saftey]

found this in an old house, its a 1941 silver liberty dime. but why would someone do this? does anyone know why it is punched out like this?

sorry so blurry.

 

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Mercury dime I've seen this done to other coins usually worn as jewelry in one way or another

 

[NGE]

I used to do that, use jeweler's saws, did it to buffalo's also. Had to buy silver coins from Fed. Reserve bank, then you could make jewelry out of the coins you cut up.........NGE

 

[doublet2a]

Here's a nickle

Tim

 

[king saftey]

thanks yall, i dont know anything about old coins.thanks for the correction on it being a mercury dime, now i know better. so whats its worth? just silver weight?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

thanks yall, i dont know anything about old coins.thanks for the correction on it being a mercury dime, now i know better. so whats its worth? just silver weight?

Probably not even a buck in silver but it is a very cool jewelry piece.


Heres one for 5 bucks. http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=2149249

 

[Mackaydon]

Here's a site that explains all about 'cut coin art':
http://www.coincutart.com/servlet/Categories

If you type "Mercury Dime" in the Search Box you'll see several of these for sale starting at $8.00.
Don.......

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

I have one (of a set of 2) mercury dime earrings.


Here's a picture (not of mine)


http://images.google.com/imgres?img...mages?q=mercury+dime+earring&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=G

 

[fortbball9]

cool find,no matter what SILVER!!!!!!!!Congrats

fortbball9

 

[DD-777]

Gives me palpitations just thinking about someone unknowingly cutting up a '16d...

 

[Marc(NB)]

holy crap! I'd rather find one like that than to dig 10 non cut mercs! beautiful piece

 

[Marc(NB)]

I used to do that, use jeweler's saws, did it to buffalo's also. Had to buy silver coins from Fed. Reserve bank, then you could make jewelry out of the coins you cut up.........NGE

That is so kewl!!! Can you give a quick run down on how you do it? Tools you need and so on.Would like to try that someday! Thanks

 

[PBK]

You can see a variety of cut-out U.S. coins at:

http://coinmon.web.aplus.net/osc/index.php?cPath=136&osCsid=8110d7a801792ff2b68046cfd16f6250