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Any meat left on the bone if this were broken apart?
Skrill90
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Hawaii coin belt
Seems like the dollar has a lot of solder but the 27 quarter pieces look mounted. Any meat left if I were to break this apart?
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I think you would lose!
Gristle.
I had one of these once, not quite as big, but broke it apart and didn't come out as well as I thought, The jewelry was soldered on like this one and was a nightmare, messed up the edges bad on several. Dollar was actually the only thing that did well
JIm
There are soooo many jewelry pieces made with those coins that it is downright shocking. Very hard sell if broken up. You'd stand a better chance of making money by keeping it intact and marking it up.
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First, the photos are just lousy. Can't evaluate the workmanship or the coins themselves. I copied the photographs over and enlarged them, and the photos got rather worse, not better.
Second, the price is high enough that you don't have much wiggle room.
Unless you wished to keep it as an intact artifact for one's own collection, I would simply stay away.
From what I see all the coins are soldered.
Pretty impressive belt and collection of coins. They are not so rare that mounting traces could be overlooked. Those coins are jewelry now....
How come they all have the exact same look.....really?
fakes.
bob
I had no trouble at all selling silver dollar belts.
Ya could always wear it round your neck like an albatross.
...And it would have very little odor.
They look real to me. There are a LOT of these. Stack's had a several dozen belts and buckles and broaches made with these in a single auction last year. The coins were so cheap and plentiful 100 years ago, it seems they made a lot of souvenir silver jewelry out of them.
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The photos are just too lousy to get into a hissy on the authenticity issue. Of course, bad photos are a red flag in many instances.
Oddly, there was a lot of 1883 Hawaii coin jewelry here in flyover country about 25 years ago. Numerous watch fobs.
Oh boy, how sad !!! :'(
I would not spend that to try to break it off. Placement of clasp makes it almost impossible to get a good outcome
Best place to buy !
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Those coins are not recoverable... traces of solder will remain... A nice artifact, but the coins will always be 'former jewelry'...Cheers, RickO
I agree with the others who are in the 'lose money' camp. Plus it's a great numismatic piece at it stands.
Here's another option ...
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
I never understand this board
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
after seller fees, you would be in the red by about 300 dollars, not to mention a bunch of wasted time
Don't do it
Good to know appreciate the sound advice.