Recently purchased some foreign coins and the person also had this bracelet made of 6 3-Pence coins (1919, 1920, 19??, 1902, 1917, 1916) and another 1935 coin that I have yet to identify. They are glued to this bracelet with some sort of glue. The lady I got them from said her grandfather made this for his wife back in the 40's which is a kind of cool story but not sure if it adds more/any value to this piece. So the coins I guess are not worth too much but if I were to decide to pull this bracelet off what would I use to do so? I have heard ACETONE. Would anyone leave it the way it is? Conversation piece for the collection? Kind of torn what to do. I kind of like it the way it is with the story. pictures not great but I think it gives a good idea. The chain that it is on does not seem to be precious medal. No marks on it at all.
Let's put it this way, if you keep it the way it is, it would be considered an interesting piece of exonumia. Dismantle it, and what you have my friend is silver table scraps. Not much to talk it at that point.
No problem...think of a bar, and a pressed penny, civil war token, and a medal all walk in...never mind, bad joke happening
It's worth more as jewelry. Six threepence coins contain about 0.25 Troy ounces of silver -- do the math. Keep showing it around your coin club, or at the flea market, and eventually someone will swap you something worth $10 or $15 for it, plus you will have preserved an artifact of another age. Let's see the one coin you can't identify.
You could take it apart, but I don't think you'd ever be happy with the condition of the coins. That's a lot of glue.
In addition, the outer surfaces of the coins are dirty, dingy, and worn; if you remove the glue, the backs of the coins (protected many years by the glue) may be fairly bright and less worn, so due to the mismatch, they will never look right. No dilemma -- leave as found.
Back in 2000 I bought a 1900 dated maundy set that had been put on links and gave it to my wife for her charm bracelet - it is still there. The coins had been soldered to the links and would have been further damaged if they had been thence removed. It is a neat way to own a maundy set, and very affordable too.
I am pretty sure it's all glue. I will check it out again tonight at home. I will also try to identify the last coin. The date on it is 1935. In the first pic it is the exact middle coin. I know they are crap pics. BTW, if I wanted to take it apart, would ACETONE be the way to go? Recommended glue removers? I might make it a project piece to experiment on it if there is some interest in the results.
I found a coin bracelet similiar to yours at an antique mall that I bought cause I got it for less than the silver it contained. My daughter liked it so I let her have it. At some point later on I read an article in the Numismatist on trench art and lo and behold there was a pic of the exact same bracelet. So the next time I saw my daughter I told her what it actually was and that she should take good care of it. That's when she sheepishly told me she was wearing it and broke it, losing the clasp and one of the connectors that hold the coins together. Lesson being....make sure what you have isn't worth more than just the silver value before you destroy it.
I appreciate everyone taking time to look and give advice. I think the majority wins and I will leave it like it is and do some more research on it. I actually have an email into the woman I bought it from to see if she has more information on the story. thank again.
