ever wanna cry ???????

longtimecollector

I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS !!!!!!

Bear

What a wast of a lovely coin.

ziggy29

Could be worse. Could have been a half.

Gemini

Once a beautiful coin and now it is the ultimate tie tack...

FC57Coins

nankraut

OH MY!

aknow

That stinks!
Dr. Steve

Tassa

Ouch.

cosmicdebris

Myqqy

I wonder if back then it was considered high class to have buttons made of real silver coins??

19Lyds

What a waste! Hopefully it was for someone's 1798 New Years Eve coat!

ms70

<< <i> What a waste! Hopefully it was for someone's 1798 New Years Eve coat! >>



They were going to party like it's 1799.

Shamika

Maybe somebody famous did it (Thomas Jefferson???).

wayneme

i guess you can look at it like this it would be lost if they hadn't make it a button
but none the less what a waste

wayneme

Not to put salt on a cut but it reminds me of some of the statements about the modern coins on these threads i'm sure the guy who make the button out of the coin felt the same as the guys bashing moderns what else could have made someone do that to the coin i guess it puts us in to a our time realty thing
wayne

astrorat

Although not the same, I have three sets of cuff-links made of twenty-cent pieces . . . ouch! Interesting items, but a waste of a half-dozen nice coins.

Lane

wayneme

but in 200 years they or we could be talk about you
lane [not me just the collectors lol ]
hope you take this the right way i know you proud to be a collector and it's nice to have something to remind you of collecting

astrorat

I am sure there are many other ways people will take my name in vain as well !

Other interesting insults to twenty-cent pieces that makes current collectors cringe are cuts on the edges. Like the jewelry pieces, they were contemporary to the coin. Nothing like trying to pass a twenty-cent piece for a quarter!

I don't "second guess" the collectors of 100 years ago. As you said, people a couple of centuries from now will be scratching their heads over what we did . . . you know, like stamping a mini Kennedy head on Lincoln cents . . .

Lane

KentuckyJ

I can't say I like it but I also can't say I hate it. What's done is done. At least not all 1797 dimes ended up this way! They made it into a button because these dimes were so common, on the streets of that day, no one ever considered doing so might not be too smart. Well, maybe it was that way. Who has worn the button? What other coins were on that coat??!!!

KJ

ozzysdad

I have about 8 or 9 really old coins that someone made buttons out of, pretty worn, But, if they used silver solder of lead, can't you get a solder remover kit from radio shack? Just a thot....

mgoodm3

Ouch.

morgannut2

This was very common practice. I have a cigar box full of these, ususally cents etc. , that I've found at Antique shows. Metal was scarce back then and until the Revolution, you had to import all buttons from Britian by law!!!

nwcs

I wonder what Stockton could do for that one?

Conder101

Several years ago at the shop I worked in we had about 6 shirt buttons made from half dimes come through. They still had ring shanks soldered to the back side of each. I should have bought them and kept them myself. They were all 1832 half dimes grading XF-AU and they were all the same die variety. They probably all came from the bank together and had been together for over 150 years