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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7858615, member: 10461&quot;]Neat cutout.&nbsp; While metal detecting, I once dug a tiny triangular section from a Standing Liberty quarter.&nbsp; It was the leftover remnant from someone making a piece of cutout coin jewelry like that.&nbsp; It was the area that said E PLURIBUS UNUM.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d have rather found an <i>intact</i> SLQ, of course (and later did, on the same site), but it was an interesting find.&nbsp; Because that little triangular scrap followed the contour of the eagle&#039;s wings, you could tell that the cutout jewelry (wherever <i>it</i> ended up) had featured the eagle side rather than the Liberty side.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess they used a small jigsaw at the time.&nbsp; That looks to have been the case with the Italian coin in the OP as well.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if they use lasers more nowadays?&nbsp; Can they cut metal with lasers?&nbsp; I guess so.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1354333[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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