[Jewelry making - Article 00377] - Re: [Orchid] Drawing 22k wire from coin

[Silverspotstudio]

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    I've read with interest several discussions on Orchid about recycling
    coins into ingots, wire, sheet, etc. It sounds like a resourceful
    thing to do, and an ascetic exercise in patience, but I think I'd
    find myself wondering if the coin wasn't worth more in coin form. I
    hope nobody is melting down Elizabethan Angels or anything like that!
    Isn't even the humble silver half-dollar worth more in coin form now
    than the wire one could obtain from it - especially considering the
    time you'd put into sawing and drawing it? 

Jessee Smith
www.silverspotstudio.com

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