now this is truely going beyond the boundries of hacking. to even conjure up this kind of hack is not only awesome, but technically illegal because you can’t destroy money here in the USA. Well if you’re willing to risk breaking that law (we sure are) and you’ve got a silver dollar handy (or a quarter works we’ve gotten emails about). you just basically, bend the coin inward, polish the outside like a ring, then hollow out the inside to fit your finger.
thanks [AJ] and to all readers for letting us know how to identify currency <3
I have copied the data from archive.org to geocites and changed the format just a little.
http://www.geocities.com/ringzingbling/coinring.htm
To the guy who posted the 51 cents worth of failed attempts… spoon /= sledgehammer
don’t try this with a quarter… atleast a copper core one. i did and it turns ur finger green.
i have a silver coin that i could use. but i am still debating on if i should or not. its a 2001 liberty silver dollar. here is a pic.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/ellectronico/coin.jpg
Mne came out GREAT! I used a 1964 half dollar that’s been sitting around forever. I skipped the spoon crap and used an anvil and a hammer. I used a drill press but didn’t get the bit to “grab” the coin like it said but I had plenty of tools available. I made a sander out of an air pump and some other junk to core out the inside to fit my finger. I ended up making it too big but it fits my index finger fine. The lettering is also still readable! Awesome idea! Here are some pics:
http://asterix299.tripod.com/my_coin_ring/index.album?i=1
I forgot to mention, I used this nasty gunk that was in a bottle to polish it. It was actually some real silversmith’s polish and it worked incredibly!
Mne came out GREAT! I used a 1964 half dollar that’s been sitting around forever. I skipped the spoon crap and used an anvil and a hammer. I used a drill press but didn’t get the bit to “grab” the coin like it said but I had plenty of tools available. I made a sander out of an air pump and some other junk to core out the inside to fit my finger. I ended up making it too big but it fits my index finger fine. The lettering is also still readable! Awesome idea! Here are some pics:
http://asterix299.tripod.com/my_coin_ring/index.album?i=1
Don’t you dare make a ring out of the walking liberty dollar. I am a numismatic (coin collector) and doing that is similar to buying a brand new Mercedes and ripping off the body panels and cutting snowflakes out of them.
Okay, that is a strech, but coins like those should be kept not only for sentimental reasons, but because the liberty dollar costs a whole lot of money and drilling a hole through the middle won’t make it more valuable. Half dolars and quarters are fair game for ring making, but any other coin should be held out on in case you feel like you need to use that coin
how much is aliberty dollar worth? it was given to me by a friend. i dont think i am going to use it after all.
If it is in perfect condition, it is worth (now) 50-75 dollars.
Besides, a coin a beautiful as that one doesn’t need to be gutted. And make sure you do not remove it from the plastic case ever. fingerprints=corrosion=ugly.
that coin is not worth $50-75 because it’s only from 2001. by 2020 that coin will be worth a considerable amount more but for now it is worth about $20. Those proof set coins go up in value fast so I would hang on to it. You can get a 1964 half dollar like mine for about $2 on ebay so i would just use one of those. Look at my results! http://asterix299.tripod.com/my_coin_ring/index.album?i=1
it seems that a lot of people are making this ring, i went to the bank and got 20 dollars worth of half dollar coins (40 of them) and looked through them, i only found one silver coins from 1971. Now the hostroy lesson for everyone….. 1964 was the last year that they made coins mostly out of silver for general circulation, in 1965-1970 they made the half dollars Outer layers –
Go to ebay and search for a 1964 half dollar. you gan buy 2 for about $2 and a roll of them for about $50-60. basically they have gone up in value since 1964 so they will be a little more than $.50… You probably won’t find a 1964 half dollar at a bank because they are completely out of circulation…
Dimes, Quarters and Half Dollars made in 1964 and before were approximately 90% silver. I don’t remember the year, but later in the 60’s, until 1968 I think, those same coins had some silver content before the switch was made to the copper/zinc composition.
Oddly enough, copper became valuable enough to stop minting coins from it.
So it has to be those? Not A Canadian Quarter? And Why dose it have to be those?
So it has to be those? Not A Canadian Quarter? And Why dose it have to be those?
I found A real one to do it with… Would it go quciker if i heated it? and is a hammer quicker?
you could use whatever you want, as long as the coin is large enough. The reason that you want the coin from 1964 is that its practically solid silver, and when you hammer it out, the ring will be silver, otherwise you get a band of silver then a band of copper….which doesnt look very nice. I posted the comment about the composition of the coins a few posts up, the best place to get the 1964 is either from ebay, coin dealer or a coin shop, i just bought a coin for 3 bucks today at a local coin shop.
any questions
aim: moonmen0
I’m considering gold plating my ring, still in construction. My mom bought a gold kit, and I don’t want to see her throw away her gold.
This is a girlie comment. But I heard a lot of people worrying about the ring changing your finger colors if it wasnt pure silver. and I just thought that I would add this helpful comment- If you coat the inside of your ring with clear nail polish it will prevent it from changing colors. Although you will have to re-apply the nail polish every few days since your skin will eat through it after a few days….just tried to be helpful. hope it was handy
ring completed, i didnt have a lot of the tools (dremal) that they used in the project and ended up hollowing out the center with a round file. but i also had access to a drill press…….heres what it looks like
http://photobucket.com/albums/v353/codekeeper/coin%20ring/
I made a ring out of a .50
If you decide to do this hack, then track down the original American Quarters (the ones with the eagles on the back). I live in england and its difficult to get a hold of quarters and the special state quarters dont work for this hack because the bronze content is too high and they wont polish very well. So use the originals
I’ve tried to make a ring twice. Both times with 100 Lira coins (I do live in the US though). Don’t know the composition of those but I made both of them too big. I want to get my hands on a 50 cent piece.
Hey stephen, nice ring.
w00t.
Quarter ring -> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Groxx/Deviantart%20Previews/P5120052.jpg and http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Groxx/Deviantart%20Previews/P5120051.jpg
That’s the third I’ve made, lol. Quarter rings turn out somewhere between about a size 6 and a size 4, depending on how far you go.
w00t.
Quarter ring -> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Groxx/Deviantart%20Previews/P5120052.jpg and http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v686/Groxx/Deviantart%20Previews/P5120051.jpg
That’s the third I’ve made, lol. Quarter rings turn out somewhere between about a size 6 and a size 4, depending on how far you go.
I am going to practice the spooning techinique on some pennys first, just to get the feel. That way I won’t lose as much money.
oops, double post.
To everyone who’s tried and messed up, take-your-time. The harder you hit, the more it’ll bend instead of flattening out. Seriously, take an hour or so just to hammer it out.
The plans are no longer up. Anyone remember them?
If you’re looking for the instructions, you can find them here.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040314025022/http://members.tripod.com/dlclark/coinring.htm
Yay for the Wayback Machine!
Your going to spoon some pennies? Do you read man? I have a mint 2004 90% silver special edition 50 cent piece…im making a wedding ring for my wife, we went to europe instead of me wasting money on some overpriced piece of jewelry (she Rulez!)
haha just did this mod… my ring looks pretty nice and fits fine on my index finger… i used a quarter and it workd very nicely, thanks for this mod know i have a unique peice of jewlery at a cost of only 25 cents!
Has anyone done this with a newer quater? i tried it and it looked horrid. Whats a good coin to use thats easily accessable?
this is a awsome hack the one I made from a quarter looks nice
does any one know A AIM hack
I commented on this on my podcast. I am running a contest involving theses silver rings. Anyone interested…check it out: http://www.andrewthetechie.com/podcast/
anyone know when canadian coins were silver?
anyone know when canadian coins were silver?
actually guys when i first saw this i thought it was cool, i decided to try it, it took maybe an hour, i used a big wrench for the steel bottom and a hammer to bang on it. It came out really nice and it fit perfectly ( i used a quarter, too cheap to use a half or silver dollar)
Canadian coins were silver before 1967.
Old idea….my uncle made many of those while wearing a body cast in an Australian military hospital in WWII. Seem a lot of those guys were going stir crazy so they took a siver sixpence and stuffed it between the squeezed together tines of a hospital fork and just tapped away on the rim with the back of a spoon until it was rounded over. Next, they used an old nail to carve out the center until a ring was there.
I just made one of these today, pretty sweet deal, I don’t live in USA so I used a good old Canadian quarter, worked fairly well, one draw back though, it only fits on my ring finger on the left hand.. got some akward stares at the mall today…
My grandpa made these rings while he was in the navy during WW2.. I have 2 of them made out of silver quarters. One dated 1949 and one dated 1920. I have worn them for 15 years. I was glad to find this site. I thought I was the only one who had these awesome rings.
no instrucions on link
http://www.everysquareinch.com/index.php/2005/10/11/p167#more167
This is a link to a quarter ring with a stone attached, no idea how they did it. I was actually looking for that when I stumbled upon this site here.
And it is a cool ring for a woman. I however prefer diamonds and emeralds, but it’s a nice ring regardless.
I WAS IN THE NAVY IN 1967 AND SPENT WEEKS AT SEA..I MADE A RING FROM AN OLD SILVER 50 CENT PIECE AND SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS BELOW DECKS OF THE SHIP POUNDING ON THIS COIN WITH THE BOTTOM OF A HEAVY SOUP SPOON AND YES IT TURNED OUT BEAUTIFUL.. I HAD IT MANY YEARS UNTIL SOME ONE STOLE IT FROM ME.. IT EVEN HAD MY BIRTDAY YEAR INSIDE AS A 1947 HALF DOLLAR..
Hello everybody,
my name is Jessy, I’m from Germany and somehow I got this ring probably made from a quarter dollar from 1942. Can anybody tell me what this ring is worth? Do you think somebody (antiquarity) would be interested in buying it?
Thank you!
been making these rings for awhile; just about any coin will do. have even used silver eagles (they make a very large ring, but just cut a section out and silver solder back together to get the size you want). check out forgedunderthemountain.com – has instructions and quarter rings for sale.
can you make a video(on the internet) on how you made it
idk if its been mentioned but the new state quarters seem to work im doing pretty good on a california quarter for the gf
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