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<p>[QUOTE="Hookman, post: 4521555, member: 99642"]Speaking of "spooned" coins, here's two I got recently. The first is a 1962 Washington Quarter with several views :</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/lUkAAOSwHy5ekd7C/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XI8AAOSwIYdekd7G/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q~UAAOSwlANekd7M/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1tEAAOSwlD5ekd7S/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KGsAAOSw~wRekd7Y/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-xAAAOSwbTNekd7d/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This next one is unfinished. In fact, it's barely started. However, you can tell it's a Walker, but not the date.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5qoAAOSwJPRehFtM/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I remember, as a "preteen", my oldest brother making one from a silver half. A Franklin, I believe it was. It took him hours and hours, during every free moment, for what seemed like days on end, of him sitting backwards on a wooden kitchen chair, holding the coin on the top of one of the chair posts, between thumb and forefinger of one hand, while tapping the edge of the coin with the inside curve of the spoon.</p><p>Tap and move. Tap and move. Tap and move.</p><p>Until finally, the coin was both wide enough and small enough to become a ring. He drilled it out with his pocket knife, then smoothed the inside with first, a file, and then sandpaper, and there he had it, a Silver Ring fit for a King,.....or at least fit for a poor boy from the backwoods of Tennessee.</p><p><br /></p><p>How long he kept that ring, or if he even still has it, I don't know, but I do know that we had the wooden kitchen chair, with the groove worn in the top of the post, for many, many years after that, and every time I sat in that chair or saw that groove, I thought about that ring, and the effort, and the time, and the determination it took for that young man, who was my oldest brother, to persevere and finish that ring.</p><p>His name is Gernie Cecil Brown. Now that's a country name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hookman, post: 4521555, member: 99642"]Speaking of "spooned" coins, here's two I got recently. The first is a 1962 Washington Quarter with several views : [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/lUkAAOSwHy5ekd7C/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/XI8AAOSwIYdekd7G/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q~UAAOSwlANekd7M/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/1tEAAOSwlD5ekd7S/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/KGsAAOSw~wRekd7Y/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-xAAAOSwbTNekd7d/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] This next one is unfinished. In fact, it's barely started. However, you can tell it's a Walker, but not the date. [IMG]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5qoAAOSwJPRehFtM/s-l1600.jpg[/IMG] I remember, as a "preteen", my oldest brother making one from a silver half. A Franklin, I believe it was. It took him hours and hours, during every free moment, for what seemed like days on end, of him sitting backwards on a wooden kitchen chair, holding the coin on the top of one of the chair posts, between thumb and forefinger of one hand, while tapping the edge of the coin with the inside curve of the spoon. Tap and move. Tap and move. Tap and move. Until finally, the coin was both wide enough and small enough to become a ring. He drilled it out with his pocket knife, then smoothed the inside with first, a file, and then sandpaper, and there he had it, a Silver Ring fit for a King,.....or at least fit for a poor boy from the backwoods of Tennessee. How long he kept that ring, or if he even still has it, I don't know, but I do know that we had the wooden kitchen chair, with the groove worn in the top of the post, for many, many years after that, and every time I sat in that chair or saw that groove, I thought about that ring, and the effort, and the time, and the determination it took for that young man, who was my oldest brother, to persevere and finish that ring. His name is Gernie Cecil Brown. Now that's a country name.[/QUOTE]
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