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Seated Dime Coin Spoon
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Found this in a small bag of miniature spoons at an estate sale, 1857-O seated dime. These are called salt spoons or snuff spoons. There are a few “dime spoons” on eBay but none this old.
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Cool, but a shame too.
Nice find... Is the handle silver too?? Cheers, RickO
That's really neat! But unfortunate too...
Maybe just don't use it silverware
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Do you figure it was made around civil war era?
Tastefully done even though a nice coin was sacrificed. I've got four Peruvian silver coin spoons somewhere. Anybody here collect these things? Peace Roy
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The well made handle looks like silver, I don’t want to remove any patina with a silver test. While a coin was ruined, for the maker it was altering common coin. Adjusted for inflation that dime is $3.23 today, so more like using a pre-1965 dime now.
If it had not been made into this spoon, this coin would, in all probability, have circulated down to a low grade and been melted.
at least they made a useful neat thing with it
Agree.
The choice is not between spoon and PCGS slabbed coin, it is between spoon and no coin.
Point taken.
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Pretty cool!
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I have quite a few spoons from my port calls back in the Navy in the 70's but only one "coin" spoon.
This one is from Brazil. It is a 500 Reis 1922 Independence Centennial.
This is the type of coin used.
I do not know what the gem stone is.
It may be Carnelian but not sure.
If you know, please let me know.
Wayne
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there was something like this posted recent sans handle and i don't recall a consensus was reached about what it was for/why it was done.
too cool!
That’s pretty cool. My type set seated dime happens to be a 57-O
Pretty cool.
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