Hello all,
A while back, I asked about this coin
I would like to have it made into a nacklace, but I don't want to mount the coin, bare in a basel.
Does anyone know where I can get a close fitting plasic holder that I can then mount in a basel, or can someone think up another way to mount it in a way in which it would be protect it?
Quote: pnightingaleLacquer and a circular bezel mount would be my guess.
That was my first thought. Thinking on my feet, and trying to offer an alternative suggestion, take it to a jeweller and have a mounting soldered on to make it into a pendant? It will destroy it as a coin, but will preserve it as a piece of decorative jewelly (suitable for a present for a woman perhaps?)
Alternatively, encapsulate it in acrylic (there was a children's toy when I was young, whose name escapes me), and make it into a paperweight?
I was thinking of the clear, hard plastic cases that snap together, that individual proof coins come with here in the US. If I could find one with a proper fit, I could then have a besel made for it (a local jeweler has assured me, he would do it for a very good price, if I supply the silver). I have some for every size US coin that I have picked up here and there, but I don't have any of the 6p size.
My hope is, that someone would have one laying around, that they would throw in on a swap.
Quote: ctuckerI was thinking of the clear, hard plastic cases that snap together, that individual proof coins come with here in the US. If I could find one with a proper fit, I could then have a besel made for it (a local jeweler has assured me, he would do it for a very good price, if I supply the silver). I have some for every size US coin that I have picked up here and there, but I don't have any of the 6p size.
My hope is, that someone would have one laying around, that they would throw in on a swap.
I have some of those lying around. What size are you looking for ?
I'm kinda fond of it, as I am of many oddities that I find in my travels. But if I ever decide to sell it, I will indeed think up the most exorbitant of prices that I can manage (in your honor Matt).
