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1882 Japanese Silver One YEN
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.
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1966 Sliver Australian 50 Cent coin ring
Australian 1966 Silver 50 cents – The round fifty cent coin was the highest-denomination and largest diameter coin of the Australian dollar‘s decimal coins, introduced in 1966. Due to large amounts made in 1966 and the rising cost of silver, it was not made in any other year. It was replaced by a dodecagonal 50 cent coin in 1969, which retained its reverse of the Australian Coat of Arms. It was made of 80% silver and 20% copper, but as the value of a free-floating silver price became higher, the coins’ bullion value became higher than their face value and so were withdrawn from circulation. A total of 36.45 million coins were minted with 14 million put into circulation.
Australian 50 Cents coin ring