I think I got a coin ring.

[Lakemonster]

So ..... Roland58 and I went out to a spot we having been aching to hit for the last week....rain kept us out till today. All I can say is that this spot has a very long and varied history to it. There is quite a lot to hit so we basically wandered around looking for hot spots.

Not much to show for our first time out there....but I did bust a ring..... and due to the ridges and a indention on the inside.... as well as shallow tap marks on the outside.... both Roland and I are thinking coin ring.

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[mikusek]

It has that look about it. I used to make them when I was a lot younger, silver quarter, a tea spoon, and a lot of tapping...... and patience, then work out the center. Still have one somewhere, and another I started and never finished. Maybe I will find a couple others when I go back to the farm this summer.

 

[Argentium]

Yup , likely made from a half dollar - Can you see any lettering on the inside edges at all ?
Argentium. (I'm wearing one now just like it - 1964 Kennedy half)

 

[Lakemonster]

I wish I could make something out. So I might better date the thing.

There is a "ridge" one one side of the inside... opposite of that there is a depression and a some sort of warped shape. It really looks like they got "off of it" when they were tapping making a thin spot....then just took the off set out with a file. Thats the best way I can describe it.

 

[Deno]

Nice ring.

 

[oldsalty19]

might be one and a nice one......I made several while in the Navy 25yrs.....

 

[deputydawg16]

It looks handmade but I am not sure about the coin ring I have made a few and you are striking the edge of the coin causing it to flare out making the obverse and reverse turn to the inside and you should see part of them on each side on the inside of the ring.

 

[Marinehunter]

I am not sure I have only seen a few but interesting.

 

[lost hunter]