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Cool ring from a coin.
pauldm - 19/11/07 at 10:56 PM

I think we would all have the tools & skill to make one of these. Not strictly legal though.
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matt_claydon - 20/11/07 at 11:15 AM

That's quite cool. Are UK coins soft enough to do that though?

graememk - 20/11/07 at 04:36 PM

thats going to take hours / days to do

Confused but excited. - 20/11/07 at 06:30 PM

It takes no time at all!
Use a turned to size punch, drill out a die from a scrap of 1/2in plate and a lump hammer, then fit it to a wooden dowel, put in drill press and polish up the outside.
We used to make them from half-crowns when I was an apprentice.

[Edited on 20/11/07 by Confused but excited.]

oadamo - 20/11/07 at 09:06 PM

iam gonna try that tomorrow with a 2 pound coin you can knock the middle out of them very easy
adam

locoboy - 20/11/07 at 09:44 PM

Mr Confused .........you have confused me!

Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?

Adam,

How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?

oadamo - 20/11/07 at 10:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Mr Confused .........you have confused me!

Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?

Adam,

How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?


put it on a socket and hit the middle with a hammer lol you can knock them back in aswell
adam

Dangle_kt - 20/11/07 at 10:44 PM

technically I beleive that is treason, as is throwing away a coin.

Good job the death penilty option the queen has is usually overlooked.

Simon - 20/11/07 at 11:55 PM

Supposing you are a Republican and thoroughly against the idea of a monarchy, would the Human Rights act not cover your right to coinage without a piccy of the king or queen

In much the same way as you can swear on the bible in court, or if an atheist give your word!

ATB

Simon

[Edited on 20/11/07 by Simon]

Krismc - 21/11/07 at 03:40 PM

but when the coin becomes a ring...its no longer a coin and therefore you aint breaking the law as that applies to coins!!

matt_claydon - 21/11/07 at 04:03 PM

It's not treason but it is in the Coinage Act (1972 or something) that you cannot melt down or otherwise destroy coins. Don't know what the theoretical penalty is but you'd never get done for it unless you were melting down coins on a large scale for profit. Really you're just doing your bit for keeping inflation down!

matt_claydon - 21/11/07 at 04:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by oadamo
quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Mr Confused .........you have confused me!

Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?

Adam,

How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?


put it on a socket and hit the middle with a hammer lol you can knock them back in aswell
adam


Or if you want to try it at your desk. Rest the edge on 3/4 other identical coins then put a couple of 5p coins on top and hit with a suitable heavy object.

Confused but excited. - 21/11/07 at 08:15 PM

quote:
Originally posted by locoboy
Mr Confused .........you have confused me!

Can you explain for dumb people without the engineering tool terminology?

Adam,

How do you nock the middle out of a £2 coin?


I did not suggest removing the centre portion of a two pound coin. the person that did appears to have removed that posting.
What I described was how we used to make rings from a half-crown piece:

1) Turn up a drift, the o/d of which equals the desired i/d of the ring you wish to make.
2) Cetre punch a piece of half inch plate, big enough to use as a die. Scribe a circle about this mark equal to the outside diameter of the coin.
3) Drill out a hole, centered on the punch mark, in the piece of 1/2" plate, to use as a die. The hole diameter should be the clearance diameter of the drift. Then counter bore the hole for half its depth, the clearance diameter of the drift+ twice the thickness of the coin + 10thou
4) Ease the leading edge of the hole in the die.
5) Place the coin in the circle and cetre the drift on the coin.
6) Smack the drift with the lump hammer until the coin edge is forced into the die and the drift punches out the centre of the coin.
7) Fit the crude ring onto a suitable piece of dowel and polish up the outside.

Lovingly present to you hearts desire.

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Davey D - 21/11/07 at 11:27 PM

here is the legal boomf on modifying coins: when you use one of them penny rolling machines to make a token it is usually printed on them:

The process of creating elongated coins is legal in the United States, Japan, South Africa and parts of Europe. In the United States, U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331 prohibits "the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." The foregoing statute, however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i.e., with the intention of creating counterfeit coinage. Because elongated coins are made mainly as souvenirs, mutilation for this purpose is legal. While it is no longer illegal in the United Kingdom to mutilate the image of the Queen, it is still illegal in Canada. There, blank planchets, slugs or U.S. pennies are occasionally used, though this law is often ignored both by the users of the machine and law enforcement.

RK - 21/11/07 at 11:37 PM

Well, the way our dollar is going, we wouldn't WANT to destroy any loonies!

oadamo - 21/11/07 at 11:47 PM

have you ever been to blackpool where you can roll your own 1p well who hasnt been there lol. anyway who gives a crap if i dont it will only get blowed on fags or crap from the shop anyway lol.
adam

indykid - 23/11/07 at 06:57 PM

yep, the penny rolling machines say the defacing of currency bit got revoked or whatever in the late 80s early 90s iirc.

long and short of it, you can do what you want to coins in england.

tom