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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 73136, member: 669&quot;]Hi Nick, welcome to the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bad news is that putting a coin into a piece of jewelry essentially destroys its numismatic value. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The good news is that making it into jewelry did not harm the numismatic value of your token, since it never had any. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The double eagle ($20 gold piece) that it slightly resembles was first authorized by a Congressional Act of March 3, 1849</li> <li>There was no national government in the 13 Colonies in 1776</li> <li>The &quot;American&quot; eagle hadn&#039;t been designed yet (Ben Franklin wanted our national bird to be the turkey <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</li> <li>The pseudo fabric-like surfaces were never used on U.S. coins.</li> </ul><p><br /></p><p>If your wife&#039;s silver piece is similar, it is also a non-coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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