Not too sure how practical these spoon coins are but they look pretty cool. Note that these coins are actually really really small - at around 16mm. It's a real shame to be honest for these Japanese silver coins to be made into such spoons as these coins aren't worth junk silver price. All of them are known to have varieties. Fortunately I think most of them are the common type except for one. I think it's a good idea to use them to put sugar to control how much sugar you put in your cup of tea or coffee. Anyone else with such similar spoon coins?
My boss at the antique shop recently found a spoon and a bowl both made out of canadian silver coins and it was well made and really coin !!
Same here - if such spoons are made using relatively common coins, fine with me. But sometimes ... Image: Pollandt/Münzauktion. This spoon has two (ex-)coins, a Würzburg taler from 1763, and a Bavarian 6 kreuzer from 1825. Of course the spoon may have been made almost 200 years ago ... Christian
Apparently, a couple of different motivations are at work. For one, as machined metal, coins are convenient for re-application. I think there is a famous ANA Exhibit of Large Cents and other coins that were cut into gears, etc. I believe that the "souvenir" coin spoons are a different artifact from the Japanese spoons, entirely. The souvenirs are whole collectible in themselves and were made to be just that for tourists.
I didn't get a chance to look at the exhibits at the ANA this past August, but I was told that one of the exhibits had five coin spoons with the bowls made from $50 California gold slugs.
