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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Patriot Coin Ring, post: 2508060, member: 81618&quot;]So true.&nbsp; Before joining this fine forum, I was just doing some reading on the coin rings (like i said, you&#039;re always learning new tips and tricks) and read in one of your posts about someone who makes rings out of coins and hammers them out to be completely smooth on both side where no detail can be seen.&nbsp; No offense because we all have our own idea of art and value but so many of you guys were understandably kind of tweaked about it because they were beautiful coins and in the majority agreed, it was a complete loss of a coin over a hundred years old and preservation should be the idea if you&#039;re going to change it from it&#039;s original state.&nbsp; Many made very valid points of just using Stirling pipes and cutting those, polishing and stretching to size, ect but not to use a coin if you were going to completely erase it from recognition.&nbsp; I totally agree with that idea and I only started out by wanting one of these guys myself which ended up with the obsession that this was really an art and showed (IMO) honor to preserving the coin for ever.&nbsp; As most of you know, if the silvers make it back through circulation to the reserve, they are melted down for their silver content.&nbsp; If you go to a pawn shop, most will not bother selling the coins but also melt them down into bars.&nbsp; Yes, this brings up the value on the coins that do still exist but kind of sad in away to lose a sense of history that you can wear daily.&nbsp; I have a beautiful liberty dollar in pure gold and another in silver from 1895 and it&#039;s so cool to think that coin was made 122 years ago during a completely different era and what the coin must have gone through.&nbsp; So for me, it&#039;s more than just a ring and I proudly wear them with the &quot;In God We Trust&quot; which between that and the cutting of a cross into many of my rings is sort of my trade mark if you will.&nbsp; Otherwise, most of us can find cheap $20 silver rings on amazon if plain silver was all you wanted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m definitely enjoying the site and friendly conversations here - thank you all for making me feel welcome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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