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I'm making a coin bartop

mrdqmrdq Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭
Are no date nickles the cheapest way to go? If so i may need a few thousand more!



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  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool project! What are you mounting them on and how are you planning to keep them attached?

    Looks like you will need lots more. You could throw in a few other types for face value.
  • CasmanCasman Posts: 3,935 ✭✭
    They may be the cheapest as long as you checked them first for varieties rare dates etc. I found (2) 1918/7's in an inherited coffee can of buff nickels used as poker chips.
  • mrdqmrdq Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭
    125 inches x 32 inches (27 sq feet!!) laying on oak veneered plywood then covered in clear resin that you pour on and heat the bubbles out. I laid out 1 SQ ft and there were 230 nickels in it so I need 230x27 minus what I already have. It's going to be a couple thousand easily. The first pic above is approximately 1 foot square

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  • winkywinky Posts: 1,671
    Cool, I think I seen a 37 3leg in there. image
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sprinkle in some steel cents and a few bucks face of silver coins.
    An after pic is mandatory image

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,042 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like my style of table!!!
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    That will be really cool.
    You should throw in some other denominations and mix them in as some sort of pattern.

    Maybe throw one of these in the bathroom
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  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭
    I like it!

    Doing it all in Buffs (I'd leave out the overly dark ones) will look great. Mixing in other denoms would cause odd gaps.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,888 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That would be boring to sit at if you cannot search the dates......just saying.

    Do it with Morgans, less coins, more pizzaz.

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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't remember if the place was called silver dollar saloon or bar. It was in N Mexico
    in Old Mesilla .The bar was done in silver dollars. It had a long history of the likes
    of Billy the kid and the outlaws.45 years ago I wonder if its still there.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,094 ✭✭✭✭✭


    I haven't been back since I posted about Lincolns 10,000 Silver Dollar Bar back in aught 7.



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    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    I was on the path to do this years ago, and got sidetracked. My thought was to use all nickels, and to buy dateless and acid treated buffs, then mix in nickels with damage on one side. I wanted to include T1 buffs, and also shield and V nickels as well.

    Never got it started!


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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    6210 nickels.....maybe a few more or less depending on layout....show us when complete...Cheers, RickO
  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I haven't been back since I posted about Lincolns 10,000 Silver Dollar Bar back in aught 7.



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    Have not been there in a while. Think I will stop on my way to the Portland ANA in March.
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  • PurfrockPurfrock Posts: 545 ✭✭✭
    Very cool project, I'm excited to see how it turns out!
    EAC, ANA Member
  • bsshog40bsshog40 Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like it will be very cool when done. The Bar Glaze stuff they sell at lowes or hm depot is great for doing the bartops.
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, chit !!! image
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  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool!

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  • SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    great project but the dark and ugly coins may be distracting. I would wash them in dilute mauratic acid it will make em look a lot better since there just going to be entombed and not collected.

    cool project.
  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Sprinkle in some steel cents and a few bucks face of silver coins.
    An after pic is mandatory image >>



    And maybe a handful or two of cull 19th Century coins.

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