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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 2764584, member: 80804"]I'm not normally inclined to disagree with Doug, but it is not at all necessary to "destroy" or even degrade in any way a coin one is intending to use as a pendant. I had a jeweler create a non-damaging pendant frame to make a pretty (and common) Demetrius II tet into a wearable HS graduation present for my genius-level middle daughter a couple decades ago. </p><p>One thing you might want to consider however is the reason she never wears it. At 16+ g. <i>plus</i> the weight of the frame, it's simply too heavy for most people to wear comfortably for any length of time. At least the coin is still in the same decent VF+ condition it was in originally. I did, however, find myself wishing I had gone with an Alexander drachm or something more along those lines - it would have made a far more wearable pendant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 2764584, member: 80804"]I'm not normally inclined to disagree with Doug, but it is not at all necessary to "destroy" or even degrade in any way a coin one is intending to use as a pendant. I had a jeweler create a non-damaging pendant frame to make a pretty (and common) Demetrius II tet into a wearable HS graduation present for my genius-level middle daughter a couple decades ago. One thing you might want to consider however is the reason she never wears it. At 16+ g. [I]plus[/I] the weight of the frame, it's simply too heavy for most people to wear comfortably for any length of time. At least the coin is still in the same decent VF+ condition it was in originally. I did, however, find myself wishing I had gone with an Alexander drachm or something more along those lines - it would have made a far more wearable pendant.[/QUOTE]
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