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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 5347169, member: 105098"]I dunno, could be real, could be reproductions, the coin itself wouldn't be too drastically expensive or all that rare to not be made into a piece of jewelry or something like that. Watch fob, bracelet, anklet I dunno. could be real, but it's plated, and that usually means it'swas harshly cleaned and polished before plating so whatever collector value it may have had, it's damaged even if they were genuine. </p><p><br /></p><p>what you have would be something along this line below, but it's just part of the bracelet. your coins are older, this example is double linked to avoid a break and it getting lost. so yours might be an earlier creation, but may be along the same lines or made around the same time even. there's many versions of these bracelets.</p><p><br /></p><p>truth is, you can find a really nice, original example for your collection for $40 or less of the same year KM#581.2 maybe even luck into an unnoticed overdate 1754 4 over 0 variety that is known that the seller might not have picked up on if you spend the time and cherrypick. all in all those coins are damaged and won't be worth the effort. The cleaning alone just to plate it irreparably damaged the surfaces even if you removed the links and deplated the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1226514[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 5347169, member: 105098"]I dunno, could be real, could be reproductions, the coin itself wouldn't be too drastically expensive or all that rare to not be made into a piece of jewelry or something like that. Watch fob, bracelet, anklet I dunno. could be real, but it's plated, and that usually means it'swas harshly cleaned and polished before plating so whatever collector value it may have had, it's damaged even if they were genuine. what you have would be something along this line below, but it's just part of the bracelet. your coins are older, this example is double linked to avoid a break and it getting lost. so yours might be an earlier creation, but may be along the same lines or made around the same time even. there's many versions of these bracelets. truth is, you can find a really nice, original example for your collection for $40 or less of the same year KM#581.2 maybe even luck into an unnoticed overdate 1754 4 over 0 variety that is known that the seller might not have picked up on if you spend the time and cherrypick. all in all those coins are damaged and won't be worth the effort. The cleaning alone just to plate it irreparably damaged the surfaces even if you removed the links and deplated the coins. [ATTACH=full]1226514[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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