I wan't to start a thread showing various items made from coins, some of this stuff gets interesting. Post a pic if you run across something, from the functional, to the fanciful. Here's some thing I saw today, a Netherland cut-out dish:

I do not have a digital camera
But some 10 years ago my brother gave me a mexican ashtray made out of copper coins

Looks like the backdrop for a clock.

Cash doll:

I think that is really cool.

African Mask with French-Camaroun coins:

Tray with schillings:

Very nice. Actually, I don't have anything that has coins on it other than a money clip.

I have one of those Morgan Dollar pocket watches around somewhere.

This is a company that makes buttons out of coins and places them on jeans.

there is one Tiffibuny.

"This is a company that makes buttons out of coins and places them on jeans"

For about a year now, all my southwest kinda shirt have mercs, courtesy of Sandy.

Can you imagine one of those as a pocket watch fob piece... eek. Something that big swinging about could be uncomfortable, but one hack of a conversational piece.

A while back, I bought my wife some Buffalo Nickel ear rings. I like them but she never wears them!

In England, there's the King's Shilling Tankards. A Shilling is spun into the glass bottom of the tankard. In the days when recruits to the Royal Navy were paid a signing-on bounty of one shilling, press gangs of unscrupulous recruiting officers tricked men into committing themselves to service by passing the coin to them in a tankard of ale. By drinking the ale, the victim was then deemed to have struck a bargain by having accepted the King's Shilling. To protect innocent men from being bamboozled into joining the King's Navy, in the 18th century they invented a glass-bottomed tankard so that a man could spot the hidden danger as soon as he raised it to his lips.

Very sensible.

All I have is a belt with buffalo nickels on it, but who doesn't have one of these

Yep something like that, except I think the watch is silver too. I can't remember.

Is that a Franklin Mint Piece?

I sell coin jewelry such as mercury dime earrings, SLQ pendants and fobs, rings made with Kaiserreich 1/2mark coins as the boss, etc. Some of it qualifies for the disclaimer: "No coin was harmed in the making of this jewelry" while some are made from coins which have already been damaged.

Those probably aren't real coins. I've seen some Afircan masks with embedded coins, and all were fantasy pieces. (mismatched reverse/obverse, and wrong metal)

I just noticed the conch shells, another form of $$.

I've seen a few of these metal bowls with various german coins.

Wonder how many Walkers gave their life for this:

Hey, I don't. I just have a belt buckle with a buffalo on it.

This looks cool:

but this is cooler:

and one fer Art:

Those can't be made out of real coins though. Unless they're teeny clocks.

I don't think there teenies, all adults.
Actually 2D blow-ups, at 1st I thought the teenie thing too.

< A while back, I bought my wife some Buffalo Nickel ear rings. I like them but she never wears them! >

So get your ears pierced. You'll be a big hit at the next coin show.

Actually, the piece in upper-right is an earring hawked for men. A mini- escudos in 18, 22 & 24 KT.

Looks like a wine coaster.

Its beautifull, isn't it? Somewhere (I can't find it) still sell these types of bowls, sterling, some vintage w/o coins. Wish I could find the site.

Nice! Nice indeed! But it looks like a russian coin to me

How about coin watches? Those are cool, but way wayyy out of my budget.

This is Romanian type of coin art (traditionally used by young girls in 19th and first half of 20'th century). The name is "Salba". I saw gold, silver, silver platted copper salbas made from French, Austrian, Turkish , Russian and Romanian coins, depends of period. These salba are part of Romanian traditional costume

This is what I found. Unfortunately I have no idea of the date of the quarter.

Good ol' Morgan Mint. Their Xmas ornaments.

You must admit, that is some mighty fine silversmithing!

Looks like Elvis over Kennedy

In World War 2, the Netherlands were occupied by the Germans.

Since our queen was not recognized as ruler by the Germans, it was not allowed to have portraits of the queen. Obviously, the Dutch people didn't agree with that, but keeping the portraits would bring them in serious trouble.

Therefor, many different ways were found to "bypass" the regulations.

One of them was to use pre-war coins and convert them to jewelry and utensils.

The first items in this thread is a dish made out of Dutch silver coins, partly cut away and then soldered together. They all still carry the portrait of the queen.
(It's an awsome dish, 16d, did you see it in real life or just the picture?)

Another way is putting coins in charm bracelets, broches, necklaces etc. Many women in The Netherlands still have a necklace or broche with a silver or gold coin in it, given to them by their (grand)mother.

I happen to have yet another item:



This is a tea or coffee spoon, made out of a half cent and a 2.5 cent, connected to each other by a twisted copper strip. This spoon was made by my late grand father (from my father's side) and given to me when he died.

My mother has a similar spoon:



This one is made of a "dubbeltje", a silver 10 cent coin and a half gulden, also silver. The metal strip in between is also silver. It's unknown who made this spoon, but it's certain it was not one of my relatives from my mother's side.

Those spoons are way cool!

Not all of them. I have a cheapy 10 markkaa (1990's type) watch that I received as a gift from a summer job I had a few years back.

Ah, that explains why I so often see Dutch silver coin jewelery. (most often with the 10c and 25c. I have a pair of cufflinks myself, somewhere)

Kinda like how the Danish had their pins with the Christian IX monogram...

Definately of cultutal and historial interest...