Silver Coin Ring and how they are made...

[chukers]

For those who don't wanna watch a 5 minute video... below the video are the pictures of the one I found at the lake...

here is a video how they are made




Chukers

 

[rob.s]

Very cool!I was watching these earlier and definitely gonna give it a shot.
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[chukers]

Very cool!I was watching these earlier and definitely gonna give it a shot.
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I'd hate to waste all those silver shavings! LOL

 

[rob.s]

Yep! Or bend the coin with heavy hits with the hammer

 

[Mackaydon]

Great informative vid. Thanks, Don....

 

[seatedhalf]

I made a couple for my kids. I used a heavy soup spoon and then a 8 oz ball peen hammer. Once it was roughly to size flip the spoon over so you are looking at bottom and hit coin. This will give you a very nice rounded ring if you do not want to do all the filing on it.
I also used a dremel tool to carve out the inside. My girls really treasure them.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Makes me wanna make 1 now

I found a 1911 barber quarter sunday and i just might do it


Blaze

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I think it was in the movie Cool Hand Luke where they show a prisoner making a ring by beating the edges with a spoon.
Cool video to view.
Carl

 

[chukers]

Makes me wanna make 1 now

I found a 1911 barber quarter sunday and i just might do it


Blaze

if ya do let us see it... I'd like to see more of theses...

Chukers

 

[rob.s]

I'm gonna start one tonight and hope all goes well with the first one..It will be a 1963 silver quarter and pics will follow..

 

[mobile miner]

I made several when I was a young`in. We always used half dollars. they come out much better than quarters. Use a spoon.

 

[oldsoapy]

Just over 2 hours work with a UK Halfcrown.

 

[chukers]

well this is strange... I have only found one in over 20 years of hunting... they don't come up on tnet very often... they are a rare find so it seems... I have never heard of them till now...

yet a lot of you guys say you have or you know how to make them...

Anyone else find one of theses in the wild?

Chukers

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

well this is strange... I have only found one in over 20 years of hunting... they don't come up on tnet very often... they are a rare find so it seems... I have never heard of them till now...

yet a lot of you guys say you have or you know how to make them...

Anyone else find one of theses in the wild?

Chukers

Pretty rare indeed. I've got only two in 25 years of hunting. One is made out of an Australian silver coin, the other is a Canadian silver quarter.

Usually two or three will show up per year in our metal detector club meetings for show and tell. Probably a lost art that was quite a bit more popular when silver coinage was still in circulation.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

I've made one, plan on making more.


Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[chukers]

well its defiantly an inexpensive way to have a silver ring!

Chukers

 

[treasurepirate1]

i made one and gave it to my mom for mothers day and she wears it every day.

 

[chukers]

i made one and gave it to my mom for mothers day and she wears it every day.

very nice... did you use a spoon?

 

[rob.s]

I made one a 2 days ago with a quarter and making one today with a half dollar.Here's the link for the first one and I used a 8oz hammer for it.. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,414492.0.html

 

[Tuberale]

Back in the '70s when I was going to college, found a few of these on campus. Don't know where I've put 'em now, but they were interesting and still counted, at least for me, as a ring. My fingers are pretty thick, so bet I just didn't wear it on my pinky any more. House was broken into a few years ago, and it might even have been stolen then. Still nice curiosities though.

I remember some high school shop teachers would show kids how to make 'em back then. To me they usually looked pretty rough from all the bangin' with the hammer.