Custom order from California. This coin is beautiful and if UNC condition it will fetch around $1500 USD. Not easy to find in any condition between 80 to 300 USD. Once I cut the centered hole in the coin and started to anneal (heat the coin so I can from it in to a ring) very strange marks appeared on both sides. I have never seen anything like this on any other coin before. Just to be clear the coin is 100% genuine and from 1882. I have only experienced something similar with a British silver crown from 1897 but it wasn’t exactly the same. After I applied a patina to darken the highlights, the strange marks look like they are a part of the design of the coin (there are 5 marks on the outside and 2 inside). In my opinion this makes this ring extremely unique. I don’t have an explanation how and why they appeared but I suspect it has to do something with silver coin making / molding / layering process in the late eighteenth century, I guess. Old silver? Here are some photos of the coin and finished ring.
