The Six Cents

by Maureen Connolly
(Maine, USA)

The Six Cents

I love working with pennies. They are 95% copper (those minted before 1982) and can be flattened, domed, drilled . . . almost anything you can think of can be done to them.

Also, of course, it's recycling and good for the environment!

This bracelet could also be personalized - using the year of a person's birth and adding their birthstone in place of the aventurine - really the possibilities are endless!

Maureen Connolly

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The Six Cents

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I love . . .
by: Rena

* the handmade copper clasp,
* the mixed metals in the chain,
* how you've wired beads to the disks,
* your cool idea for personalizing it using coins with someone's birth year.

It looks like there are at least a few wheat pennies in this design! :o)

Thank you for sharing your interesting idea and process with us, Maureen!

thanks rena!
by: maureen

my love of working with pennies has led me to create some really unique jewelry. from where i stand, the design possibilities are only limited by my own imagination! thanks for your comments!

Clever
by: Terri Wlaschin

I love how you repurposed those pennies and added the dome effect (and beads) to some of them. Interesting and eye catching. I want to study each dangle.

The Six Cents
by: Tricia - Bead Booty

Very cool bracelet...and I love the title!

legality issues
by: Anonymous

Interesting idea, however, isn't it completely illegal to use U.S. coinage that way?

legalities
by: maureen

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.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin