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- jhuber, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Glad some of you liked it and what I am making. I have been doing this for less than a year, and started out using old worn coins because they are cheap. I get them from the junk coin bin at the local coin shop. The design in the video was nothing spectacular, but was not for myself. Take a look at some of the others designs I have made. Recently I have been using Sterling silver sheet.
John
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7566245@N07/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19That is "Amazing Jewelry"?
Looks like a ruined quarter to me. - jcims, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6my favorite is the sound when he's sanding the coin by hand...cool speedup.
- Rudigity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6wow thats a lot of work, i'll just go to the flea market
- ForebodenOdin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow, I take my comment back you have amazing designs. I absolutely love it.
- leftfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://hackedgadgets.com/2006/07/29/coin-ring/
Here's another technique my friends dad uses to make rings, takes a while though. - stupidverizon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yea I thought the one in the video wasn't very exceptional, but those in your flicker photos are awesome! You should do orders, I would buy one for a keychain.
- Gryph1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Got this off a souvenir penny page( http://www.squished.com/featuresnew/features_101.html ):
The United States law Section 331, Title 18 prohibits altering coins or other forms of money for fraudulent uses. On the other hand, it does permit the altering of coins, such as pennies, without such intentions. For example, when squishing coins, you make a copper souvenir of your visit to a far away place. But although your squished treasures may have infinite value to you, they are no longer currency.
So this seems legal enough - jonpirtle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3jhuber
You should start a business, I would buy a keychain from you...more specifically the apple logo one and the VW are very nice. I would like to see a toyota logo, that would make it a done deal. - jhuber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I love it when people say it's illegal. IT"S NOT! The law...
“Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes,
falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of
the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current
or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States;
or whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or
sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into
the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered,
defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or
lightened— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
five years, or both.”
When you read the actual law, it has one key word that everyone overlooks. "fraudulently"
What this is saying is that you can't do this to cheat or trick someone. I can't carve a quarter to read 50c and try to use it as a half. You can't remove gold from the edges of a coin and then try to use it as full-weight. It is also illegal to change a mint mark to make a coin more valuable.
Whenever the price of silver goes up a bit, people bring in old boxes of silver coins and trade them in for scrap. Millions of coins were melted in the 80's when the price of silver neared $80 bucks an ounce. Nobody got in trouble.
Historically, there have been several times when the price of a coin has exceeded it's face value, and has been melted by the public. A 1964 quarter is worth about $2.43 today. Also, silver coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1965, so these are coins that are obsolete and do not circulate anyway.
Also think about those coin stamping machines you see at tourist destinations. Drop in a penny and press a design into it. Not illegal. Even if it was just a penny, do you think the companies who make these machines would be able to make them if it was illegal?
Bottom line...no fraud, no problem.
I also remind people that I only use old worn-out junk bin coins. They are worn, scratched and dirty.They have no collector value and they are sold depending on the price of silver that day. I am a coin collector, so I would never destroy a coin with any real value. I just use them because they are available and junk quality. I have been moving more towards sterling sheet lately because I can make bigger pieces more easily.
John - ForebodenOdin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Could he at least have made a better design? Props, though, for showing us how...
- jhuber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3mature comment.
- Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I believe that "fraudulently" is the operative word.
Nobody is going to jail or being fined for making jewelery out of coins. The law is meant to go after counterfeiters, not kids who put pennies on train tracks or people who make rings. - Rinnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, it looks like you can't melt them anymore. That's one method of defacement that is prohibited:
http://digg.com/business_finance/U_S_Mint_makes_law_against_MELTING_pennies_and_nickels - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In the UK it's a crime to deface the crown, if you cut or deliberately damage money.
- ectocooler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2his emails on that video, i'd drop him a line.
- Rinnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@leftfield
lol the old spoon and quarter method. My friends and I used to do that in high school. Unfortunately, we didn't know about the "pre 1965" coins and would use any old quarter. Needless to say, it took a quite a while hammering away with the spoon, and when it started to fold you would get a more copper looking ring. It's not as attractive, but if you're going for a more copper look, go with post 1965 coins apparently. - geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6The video itself was pretty cool, but this has to be the most pointless way to waste a coin. There's nothing special about what this dude made out of that quarter. The guy has talent when it comes to putting together a neat video, but he sucks at making jewelry.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I narrowed to down to three things.
1 tutorial
2 music video
3 nothing
but i also think its not any of the three. so I'm just going to leave it at cool! - pon4v, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Fashion jewelry is something you need a lot.. Find wholesale fashion jewelry here.
http://www.fashionjewelrywholesale.org - hmcnally, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's jeweleroic!
- motherwell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As posted above it is legal to destroy your own money. It's your money! If you destroy it then the US government no longer has to back it up.
It's when you destroy your money and still try to spend it that you become a felon.
...I like your work...keep it up. - jadedsunrise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2this is really cool. now I might have something to do with my coins besides dump them into a coinstar machine.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1use one of the coins and call someone who cares lol someone had to say it
- Eugenis, on 01/13/2009, -0/+1Read news and articles about all kinds of jewelry:
http://jewelry-newsline.com - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They added the melting part because nickels and pennies are now worth more as metal than as coins due to rising zinc prices. You know what? ***** you, US Government, I'll melt pennies all I want. ANARCHY RULES!!!
- Gregus1032, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool stuff, i used to do stuff like that at school in machine shop. made quite a bit of money doing so. but i didn't do it out of coins, mostly scrap metal~
- brettml, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This dude rocks. Love the music too.
- pgifts, on 01/01/2009, -0/+0seems good.
http://www.squidoo.com/cash4goldsilverplatinum - maxima3900, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0If you're looking for jewelry, here's a cool site: http://www.hotjewelryonline.info
- DrNeutral, on 12/10/2008, -0/+0Don't just look at one site: Compare them all!!! http://uk.shopping.com/xDN-jewellery_2
- aidana209, on 03/31/2009, -0/+0Diamond Jewelry are also very precious and people like to wear in occasions…http://www.ultradiamonds.com/jewelry/categories/di ...
- marjo9, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1018 U.S.C. §331:
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled or lightened - shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. - Estaris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2That seemed to be a lot of work for minimal results. I can't imagine anyone wearing that. That's a waste of a good coin.
- NathanExplosion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It's such a stylish way to make change useful again.
- mraustin1337, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah he rocks.
I wish I were superhuman so I could move that fast. =( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1it is against the law but just do a computer stew
- ardarvin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This was GAY. Unfortunately I watched the whole damn thing, hoping he'd make something cool...when in fact he made some piece of junk that I'd pass over at a dollar store. What a waste of a perfectly good quarter.
- Erik1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1*sues*
- kenpakhomov, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0thats the *****!
- RazorbackGeek, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0This is illegal and, can land you up to 6 months in a federal penitentiary.
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