Reach can always reach me: before, during, and after the sale by phone or email.
Email Cut Coin Store Phone: (888)501-6554 in California
(I respond to all emails, so if you don't hear from me with a day or two, the email has gone to the lost email filter farm. Please do call then.)
Carving out coins -- more commonly referred to as "cut coins" or "cut out coins," is a very skilled art requiring a talented craftsman, a steady hand to control the blade, and patience. The art leaves the viewer with the illusion at times that the coin design is "floating" with the coin's edge.
Many coins you are viewing do take hours to complete, such as the most elaborately cut styles like the reverse side of a U.S. Morgan dollar. The majestic eagle on the backside of the coin is the most popular cut for men's money clips as are the handsome U.S. American Silver Eagle dollars with Lady Liberty walking between the sun's rays.
Are you choosing a gift?
Recipients of cut coins are amazed with their new very special gift. They treasure the piece of jewelry, show it off, and proudly carry it.
You should watch them closely after you present them with their new money clip or bezel. They will immediately slide their coin between their thumb and fore fingers feeling the design, holding it up to the light, looking at it up close or with glasses, studying it, then sharing with friends. Watch their amazement in their eyes. Listen to their comments.
If at a party, they will revisit the new valuable present if they set it aside while opening other gifts. They return to it to look at it again and again. Watch them once again as they study the details of a coin they once new as a "solid" coin. They proudly show them off to friends and strangers. They will show it off for years.
You are a special person for giving them such a unique item and will be remembered for as long as they own it, use it, and enjoy it.
And since many money clips you see here are scarcely seen, they proudly feel they have the only one in the entire universe. The rarest one. Give them one dated in the early 1900's, 1800's, or one with a parent or grandparents birthday and -- wow! -- that is special!
If you are remembering someone's current achievements for this year, then, I'd recommend the American Silver Eagle (with lady Liberty) walking between the sun rays on the new U.S. pure silver dollar. A handsome coin dated this year!
I utilize the very much preferred "spring back" style. This design not only encircles your coin, but its spring back design holds just a few bills, or several, firmly and on the clip, and in your pocket. After all, you want the currency to be secure and deep in your pocket. Most clips have a shinny hard-plating to prevent tarnishing. You can request you money clip to be upgraded to a sterling silver clip of same design. With sterling, the coins and money clip take on the beautiful silver patina over the years. Ask for current price or see auction, it is currently $40 or less to upgrade.
Most items you order here do arrive with a gift box or a black velvet-like jewelers gift bag. If not noted in auction, just add a dollar to the checkout and you can receive it in a box ready to give.
How is it done?
The cut out area on each coin has been cut away with a very tiny jewelers saw by hand.
This is not done with any laser-guided machines.
This is not cast.
This is not done by any maching.
This is all done by hand.
Precision cut, yet strong enough to last for years. Small metal "bridges" or "diamond cuts" attaching the retained design gives the "floating" look with the coins edges, but retains the strenghth you need under normal use. These "bridges" are sometimes invisible at first glance becauase of the technique of angle cutting. Hence, diamond cut like a facet on a diamond.
Is it legal?
You bet it's okay.
The coins are now an piece of art and have NOT been cut with any fraudulent intent. No numismatic value has been added and they are NOT part of current currency circulation in the United States. They are NOT spend able coins now (in fact if you attempted to spend the coin, that would be illegal) -- they are now treasured pieces of art no longer in circulation.
Actual United States Code statute:
18 U.S.C. §331: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.
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