Make a silver ring for 25 cents

Step 5: Polish your new ring

I found that the small taps from the spoon gave a nice polished look already. You can use the dremel to clean out any rough areas inside the ring. If you opted for the quick and dirty hammer method you may need to polish the outside of the ring. I suggest several rounds of polishing, coarse --->fine grit.
After that you are done.

Comments

[NINJ4SP4RT4N]

How do you make the ones with the 1964 and united states of america on the outside of the ring?

[SamuraiSpirit]

It might work if you drill the hole first, and then take something that fits in the hole and tap from the inside out. I suggest trying it on something that you don't mind messing up on first before using a silver quarter.

[mayday12]

well, isn't this illegal, defacing US currency? i use old chucky cheese coins.

[Mathes3207]

No it is not, people always think it it but its not. The law say defacing US currency THEN trying to pass (use) it.

[mayday12]

ok

[target022]

Not possible using this method. The writing will always be on the inside of the ring unless you can somehow tap the ring from the center going out.

[darman12]

Tapping it from the center out will make the round part on the inside of the ring, haha!

[electridanger]

Challenge accepted

[tmorrigu]

@roxy
Mutilating coins dates back to when they were cut and weighed and worth whatever metal they were made out of. It was a common criminal act to skim off, say, silver from a bunch of quarters (example only) and recast new coins (or whatever they liked) passing off the minimized quarter as though it were still worth 25 cents, while making a profit off of the removed portion. We no longer have a gold standard economy, so the concept is no longer legitimate. While the law hasn't been revoked, so it is possible to be prosecuted in theory, the only circumstance under which that would happen would be if a cop really wanted you for something else, but couldn't get to you. Or if you really did melt down part of a quarter, spend the rest normally, and make a profit the old fashioned way. But it'd be tough with only old coins to worth with.
Our dollar would be worth a lot more if people went around destroying money... the more scarce something is, the more it's worth. Viva la art!

[roxy2323]

Actually, you're incorrect about this being a federal crime and I wouldn't advise people to destroy federal currency. Under 18 U.S.C. § 331 (US Code 18, Section 331) it says:

"Sec. 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

STATUTE-
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs,
diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined
at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are
by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money
within the United States; or
Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or
sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into
the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered,
defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or
lightened -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
years, or both."

Just an FYI...

[Poppenboom]

lol i looked in our change drawer and i found a bunch of state quarters, and 2 1965 lol but no 64s lol so im making a half silver half copper ring xD

[excessive.insurgence]

if i use the later dated copper ones (couldn't find any quarters older than my dad D: ) will it have a different visual effect? would you see the copper ring in the center?

[target022]

Yes, you will have a copper coin with a bit of the silver nickel around the edges. Scroll through the comments, (2nd to last page I think) I posted a pic of a half dollar ring I made from a newer coin.

[Burnsides]

I enjoy the idea of the spoon! I never would have thought of that.

[peace, love, art]

This is absolutely beautiful. I am definitely going to try this out.