{"id":2671,"date":"2019-08-25T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2019-08-25T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T11:47:29","slug":"coin-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2671","title":{"rendered":"Coin Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know this was a thing, but apparently you can make rings from coins.\u00a0 There are a ton of videos out there on how to do this (basically, you hammer down the edges into a ring shape, then drill out the middle, at least that is how they appeared to have made this one).<\/p>\n<p>Well, I found one of these yesterday, at the same site I&#8217;ve been working recently that has given up some barber silver and a few IHs.\u00a0 You can see the lettering from the edge of the coin on the inside of the ring, if you look hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>This one was made from an SLQ; you can see the words &#8220;QUARTER DOLLAR&#8221; and the stars.\u00a0 No date, so it was probably one of the dateless ones.\u00a0 Good thing, I suppose, as I would have had a heart attack if it were a 1916.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2672\" title=\"082419z\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419z-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419z-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also found a regular silver quarter (1934), which I got pretty well with my digger.\u00a0 Oh well, good thing that wasn&#8217;t a 1916 SLQ either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2673\" title=\"082419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/082419-454x300.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know this was a thing, but apparently you can make rings from coins.\u00a0 There are a ton of videos out there on how to do this (basically, you hammer down the edges into a ring shape, then drill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/2671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}