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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2573658, member: 10461&quot;]It was indeed an attention-grabber at shows, and the only time in my life I&#039;ve been a flamboyant extrovert (Internet excluded).&nbsp; It was pictured in <i>Numismatic News</i> and some of the other hobby publications.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nope, I only adopted &quot;wounded&quot; coins, not ones <i>made</i> with holes.&nbsp; Center holes are harder to hang coins from, and besides, I&#039;d have had 300 pounds of Chinese cash and other stuff if I had collected mintmade holeys.&nbsp; And &quot;wounded&quot; coins are damaged goods, so few other people wanted them.&nbsp; That kept them quite affordable (though the gold was still gold, of course.&nbsp; I paid $350 for the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/heres-a-beat-up-coin-that-im-super-stoked-about-d.286652/page-2#post-2573334" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/heres-a-beat-up-coin-that-im-super-stoked-about-d.286652/page-2#post-2573334">Eliasberg Zeno solidus</a> and the $3 piece was $160.&nbsp; I paid $100 for the UNC-details Flying Eagle cent holey.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;holey coin garment&quot; idea was not original to me, but I <i>did</i> pioneer the fishing swivel method.&nbsp; That not only made it easier to add or remove coins with no additional sewing hassles, but it also allowed &#039;em to flip around and show alternate sides, which a sewed-on coin won&#039;t do.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Guilty as charged, on both counts. But aren&#039;t so many of us?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Someone long dead, no doubt. I never &quot;made my own&quot; holes.&nbsp; They were always 100+ year old holes, with only a few exceptions: I did drill out an ugly lead solder plug from the 1856-S quarter eagle, and one or two large cents on the back had had partial holes that I &quot;fixed&quot; so they went all the way through.&nbsp; (I forgot to mention: the back side of the vest was a <b>date set of holey large cents</b> lacking only three dates in the 1790s and the 1804).&nbsp; Also, if you look in the US coin album you will see </p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[<span style="color: #ff0000"><b>edit</b></span>: nope, sorry, the gallery links in the first post are all bad now.&nbsp; Thanks for nothing, stupid Photobucket!&nbsp; Grrr.]</font></p><p><br /></p><p>that the vest had six buttons made from old Shield nickels and Flying Eagle cents.&nbsp; I did drill those.&nbsp; They were nasty culls a detecting buddy had dug, so I put them through a rock tumbler and then drilled the center holes.&nbsp; (Shame on me for that, but if you had seen &#039;em before the treatment, they were pretty much slugs anyway.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed they do, sir.&nbsp; Indeed they do.&nbsp; For me as well. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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