US Hand Crafted Coin Earrings

I have been working on a few different packaging ideas for my newly created set of Handcrafted in USA Earwear based around nice Liberty Head US Nickels. Have settled on a CD size package / sleeve to mount the earwear in, will post pics soon. These ear wears are made of 20G sterling silver wire and some of them with 22G German manufactured  'silver filled' wire (which is sterling silver bonded to a copper core) with various beads and sterling silver ear-wires or custom made ear-wires of the german silver filled 22G wire. Below are a few pictures of the work, hope to see you in these creations :)

Heinrich Hertz Necklace

The Heinrich Hertz Necklace

1887 Morgan Dollar in Sterling Silver Coin Bezel

Silver & Cu Wire in 22 G with Millefiore Beads and Rose Quartz

USA Hand Crafted Jewelry

Murano Millefiori Balloon Earrings & Czech Glass Skull Bead Earrings

BALLOON EARRINGS

These are like Itty Bitty Bright Colored Balloons with Little Tiny Silver Gondolas - these will lift your spirits and ease your mind with their Brilliant Buoyancy! The beads are Antique/Vintage Murano Millefiori Glass, the wire is Solid Sterling Silver 20 G and the Tiny Coin is a set of US Trimes. A Trime is a three cent US silver piece minted from 1851 to 1873 - these are the smallest silver coins ever minted in the US :)

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STEAMPUNK BRITISH PENNIES EARRINGS

These are Czech Glass Skull Beads in Black with Gold Accent's, the Wire is Pure Sterling Silver in 20G - the coins are British Half Pee: Matthew Boulton & James Watt Steam Engine Powered Coin Presses Pressed SOHO Minted Half Pennies 1806 and 1807. Matthew Boulton was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills. Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment.

NICKLE PUNK SKULL BEAD EARS

These are Black Czech Skull Beads in Black, Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1903, and Millefiori Beads

NICKLE PUNK SKULL BEAD EARS

These are Black Czech Skull Beads in Black, Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1905, and Millefiori Beads

NICKLE PRETTY BEAD EARS

These are Black Czech Skull Beads in Black, Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1908, and Millefiori Beads

NICKLE PUNK SKULL BEAD EARS

Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1902, and Millefiori BeadS

"THE RMS TITANIC 1912"

PRETTY EARS

These are Cane Glass Beads, Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1912, and Millefiori Beads. New Mexico and Arizona are admitted as the 47th and 48th state during this year. Also, the RMS Titanic sank during this year.

NICKLE PUNK SKULL BEAD EARS

"THE HEAVISIDE LAYER 1902"

These are Black Czech Skull Beads in Black, Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1903, and Millefiori Beads

THE CLOUD CHAMBER 1911 

PRETTY U.S. NICKLE EARS

These are Black Czech Skull Beads in Black, Sterling Silver Filled Copper Wire in 22 G, US Nickels from 1903, and Millefiori Beads

HERE ARE A FEW OTHER PICTURES OF THESE PIECES

Tiny Roman Coin Earrings

Tiny Roman Coin Earrings

Small 'Desert Patina' Roman Coins 


About 13-mm in width 


Unattributed dating from about 400-300AD. 


I maintain a short list of ancient coin dealers who I trust and work with. These particular coins were purchased from a reputable online dealer (http://stores.ebay.com/Jackson-Jacobs-Family-Numismatics) then purposefully 'holed' & dangled from Sterling Silver French Ear Wires. 


The obverse of the coins show small portraits of a Roman Emperor, the reverses have either a set of vows or a small figure. 


According to my correspondence with Jackson & Jacob's Family Numismatics these types of coins are usually from the era of emperor Constans, from eastern mints (they came from Jordan and the Holy land desert) such as Antioch. However, other possibilities for the emperor depicted on these small unattributed coins may be Theodosius I or II, Valentinian I or II, Valens or Constantius II or Constantine the Great.

Cute little earrings!