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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2574055, member: 10461&quot;]As a former collector of holed coins, I sometimes encountered misguided attempts at coin repair.&nbsp; This is why I say &quot;don&#039;t remove the loop&quot;.&nbsp; It is better to have an intact coin <i>jewelry</i> piece than a damaged coin.&nbsp; If it&#039;s gonna be a &quot;problem&quot; coin regardless, why not leave it alone? (Not that I&#039;m suggesting you were gonna try to remove the loop.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Take, for example, the <a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/The%20Holey%20Gold%20Hat/HGH-USA-Gold-250-1856S.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/The%20Holey%20Gold%20Hat/HGH-USA-Gold-250-1856S.jpg" rel="nofollow">1856-S quarter-eagle</a> I once had on my <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">&quot;Holey Gold Hat&quot;</a>.&nbsp; When I got it, I saw someone had crudely plugged the hole with some kind of non-gold metal; probably lead solder or something like that.&nbsp; The plug was a blackish color and stood out like a sore thumb.&nbsp; What&#039;s the point?&nbsp; It was ugly, so I drilled the plug back out and reverted the coin to a &quot;holey&quot;, just as had been intended by the person who had drilled the original hole a century and a half before.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once a jewelry piece, always a jewelry piece, unless you pay good money for a professional repair, which is probably only worth it for really tough stuff like better-grade Bust dollars and such.&nbsp; (And even then, they probably wouldn&#039;t straight-grade with a third-party grading service.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But that&#039;s not necessarily a bad thing.&nbsp; Holed and looped pieces, like engraved or counterstamped or love token pieces, all have their own charm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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