Unusual Dime

[Clad2Silver]

Went out for a couple hours this morning at a park and didn't find a whole lot but dug this 1989 dime that someone turned into a piece of jewelry.

 

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[CreakyDigger]

Someone's labor of love, probably.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Someone's labor of love, probably.

Definitely.....I wish they'd have chosen a silver dime though

 

[A2coins]

Thats pretty cool bet it was special to someone. Good job

 

[RichsEquinox]

Nice, congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Interesting!! Congrats!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

Who would want that old coot Roosevelt hanging around their neck? I think I'd rather have Miss Liberty from the Mercury dime. Gary

 

[Clad2Silver]

Thats pretty cool bet it was special to someone. Good job

Thanks Tommy.....

Nice, congrats!

Thank you.....

Interesting!! Congrats!!

Thanks Digger.....

Who would want that old coot Roosevelt hanging around their neck? I think I'd rather have Miss Liberty from the Mercury dime. Gary

So would I, but maybe the person who made this didn't happen to have a Mercury Dime to use.

 

[Mud Hut]

Cut out coin jewelry is fairly common. there is quite a bit on Etsy.

 

[Argentium]

Crazy amount of labor for so little reward ..I work with a jewelers saw and tiny drill bits fairly often - it wouldn't occur to me to try that with anything less than silver..

 

[jewelerguy]

cut out coin jewelry started becoming all the rage here where I live back in the mid 70's. Used to see a good amount of it for sale at our local flea market. As a coin collector, I always hated seeing an 'old' coin such as a walking liberty half or mercury dime destroyed like that. But, to each their own and in the long run I guess it doesn't matter because we can't take it with us when we die. That is a pretty cool find

 

[Clad2Silver]

Cut out coin jewelry is fairly common. there is quite a bit on Etsy.

Mercury dimes and Buffalo nickels are very popular coins to make into jewelry.

 

[ken135]

I found one some years back that was a work in-progress. Currently my avatar.
Sure looked like it was going to be a piece of jewelry.

 

[UnderMiner]

Tiny drill bits and tiny files, probably a jewlery class in a school had this as something they could do.

 

[scruggs]

Neat find you made!

 

[Clad2Silver]

Neat find you made!

Thanks Scruggs....

 

[caretaker]

they call that a cut out hobo dime, they have other kinds

 

[Clad2Silver]

they call that a cut out hobo dime, they have other kinds

I've heard of "Hobo" nickels which are made from re-engraving Buffalo nickels, but I've never heard of hobo dimes. I know that there are many different types of cutout coin jewelry, most of which are made from silver coins.