A Cut Above The Rest

[Subterranean]

Here's something different for your perusal. Last Sunday, I found an artist-cut quarter pendant, or love token, in an old lawn of a middle school twenty miles north of my house. First one for me. It has the "Key to my heart" theme.

Yesterday, I went to a different middle school fifteen miles south of my house and MD'ed the old football field in the pouring rain, (ATPro proved its salt,) and found TWO more artist-cut quarter pendants! The "Miami University" themed pendant is amazing. The other love token one has a "Two Interlocking Hearts" theme.

Would have been sweeter if the three were made from silver quarters, but I am not complaining. Makes me wonder if the shop/art teachers 20 years ago were pushing coin-cutting projects, or kids were getting these at local fairs or carnivals.

Thanks for looking, Happy Hunting and have a blessed Memorial Day. Sub

 

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[CoinandRelicMan]

Nice, I guess that challenge is to find the 2nd half of the item now ! Still interesting items tho

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Really neat finds! Now get out there and find the other matching side!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Awesome repurposed coins! Neat find!

Maybe you can find the shop teacher or others who can answer your question.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Man! That just burns me! Why do people have to go and carve up a perfectly good clad quarter!?!? Ain't
they got anything better to do!?

Excellent Subby ole boy!

 

[Old Dude]

Great finds Sub. First time I have seen those. I always thought defacing money was a crime? If that's so, it may be hard getting a teacher to incriminate themself, lol.

 

[46Wheat]

That's pretty cool

 

[Ahab8]

Very cool stuff man

 

[parsonwalker]

Really cool items that somebody took a LONG time with, Sub. I remember my sister cut a bunch of merc dimes in the 60s. Just left the rim and the head of Mercury.

 

[OBN]

Very cool and the fact you found a few in a short time..!

 

[Higgy]

Grats on the very cool finds! I love interesting "keeper" finds like that. To me, finds like these are the spice of this great hobby.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Wow... those are killer... three of them no less. Good show Sub!

 

[Subterranean]

Great finds Sub. First time I have seen those. I always thought defacing money was a crime? If that's so, it may be hard getting a teacher to incriminate themself, lol.

I was told long ago that if an artist renders a coin MORE valuable as a piece of art than it is worth face value, then it is permitted by federal law. Obviously, that would be in the eyes of the seller and buyer. Sub

 

[Subterranean]

Man! That just burns me! Why do people have to go and carve up a perfectly good clad quarter!?!? Ain't
they got anything better to do!?

Excellent Subby ole boy!

Boy howdy it would take alot of patience to sit with a magnifier and thin-bladed Coping saw for hours, meticulously planning and cutting away at these coins. As for quarters, I have a love/hate relationship with them. Always wishing that 83-89 VDI signal on the ATPro will be your next silver ring or pendant, only to find a brown quarter in the hole. But the dollar amount of your clad adds up quickly for gas money or charity with quarters! Sub

 

[Davers]

Very Cool . Never found one of those.
Davers