I've spent about $300 and still cannot make a ring out of a 50 cent piece

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with coin ring making. Half dollars are a bit tougher to move than quarters, so they take more patience and slightly different tools. The older silver one's can crack easily too so they need to be annealed frequently. I typically use an arbor press, and swedish wrap dies for those coins. I'm happy to help if there's a specific part of the process you're hung up on.

Thanks, with even better tools I've done it under a minute. I've got a video of that too.

Thanks I developed this method to do demonstrations while traveling at fairs and shows. I typically use a ring stretcher and press however.

So, you can figure it out, but others need words??? You're full of crap...hahahaha, get it? Crap...Mr. lover and studier of such stuff...hahahaha

Dork 😂😂😂

Go for it! I actually got into jewelry because of bladesmithing. The jewelry side has been the more profitable endeavor in the long run.

@@beliedat2457 precisely 🤓🤓

You need a life@@beliedat2457

They’re pretty popular with the ladies too :)

Yep that’s the old school way, it takes a bit more patience :)

How do I get onplse plse

I sell coin rings on my website Joshuathejeweler.com. Contact me if you don’t see what you’re looking for.

Thanks! believe it or not I paid $100 for that anvil. It's a 240lb Colonial period Mousehole style anvil that was dug up in the suburbs of Durham NC. I got a deal to say the least. Vevor has some decent starter anvils at affordable prices. You can get a mandrel from any number of online stores, Amazon or Otto Frei would be my first recommendations. Make sure it's steel not aluminum or plastic.

I’ve made some into earrings but I have quite a collection at this point.

A bit late for that I’m afraid haha. She’s lasted a couple hundred years already so I think she’ll survive.

I happened to find this one in a parking lot, some kind of car part I guess. Any piece of flat steel bar or even an old hammer head may work similarly. If you have a press or ring reducer however I do recommend that over the punch for coin rings as you will get better control.

It appears to be a railcar brake lever pin (41 years as a railroader). They are hardened steel, but I’ve never one that was that flat on the end. Great vid btw! I’ve been making coin rings, bells & cowboy hats for a couple years, and found your procedure variation interesting! More than one way to skin a cat (or ring a coin)! Ha! Merry Christmas!

I do sell old silver coin rings. Online I have half dollar and Morgan dollar rings available, silver halves start at $127 for a ring. Feel free to send me an email, joshuathejeweler@gmail.com, with what coins you might be able to supply (I'll make a ring from your coin too if you so desire).

I haven't seen anyone do this successfully. The challenge is the inner material would be spread so thin it would crack very easily making it difficult to form the ring. That being said the punched pieces make nice earrings, tie tacks and cuff links. With larger coins like Morgan dollars I can even make a second ring from the center piece.

maybe using the purest k and heating to some point below melt although you would probably end up with a plain gold ring. it bears experimentation. the plug could be pressed back into the ring perhaps.@@joshuathejeweler

I've found with newer quarters (less than 25 years old) I can generally size them to about a size 9 ring without annealing. They will crack if over-worked and for larger sizes or older coins I will anneal them. When stretching the coin only stretch a little bit at a time and turn the coin about 1/8 of a turn with every stretch so you aren't overworking one area of the coin.

Newer coins are quite malleable, however they will crack if over worked. I find I can get most to between sizes 6 & 9 before they start to show signs of stress.

@@joshuathejeweler Ok, thank you for the reply.

Thanks, I don’t make these tools myself. Yea I like my colonial anvil :)

Great video! What tools does one need to make these rings? Best place to purchase the tools? Thank you in advance.

Tools are listed in the description. I’ve ordered tools off Amazon, Etsy, and Otto Frei.

Most brass, copper, nickel, gold and silver coins will work for ring making if you are careful. I avoid steel coins and zinc pennies however. Steel can mar my tools, and zinc pennies just aren't very malleable and the copper cladding separates from the zinc interior.

There’s many suppliers out there that make coin ring tools and jewelry tools, you can find most of the tools used in this video on Amazon, Etsy or EBay. Jason’s Works is a great brand for coin ring specific tools but can be a little pricey for some. For Jewelry tools I recommend Otto Frei and Rio Grande if you’re in the US.

The anvil is not required just a sturdy bench or even a stump. The remaining tools you should be able to find for around $200. Sell 20 quarter rings and you’ll make that money back pretty quickly.

yes and a drill to remove the center, that's the old school way. It takes some patience :)

I had a sailor show me a ring he made from a silver dollar. They tapped them flat on the ships rail, then drilled out the center. I made one for my pop but used a light hammer to round. It took me a long time but was unique.

That was my grandfather in WW2 in a Japanese POW camp. I have still have the quarter. Not a ring though.

My dad made a ring for my mother using a spoon. She still wears it and she’s 84.

My dad made his wedding ring out of a silver half dollar or silver dollar, I don’t remember which one, in about 1950 using a spoon. I was born in 52 so wasn’t there but my mom said it about drove her crazy, all the tap, tap, tapping.

I don't coat my rings with anything. The green finger is minimal on clad coins, although noticeable. I know some makers use clear powder coat or uv resin but it's not worth the extra effort in my opinion for a simple quarter ring.

@@joshuathejeweler I think my wife is really sensitive to it or something. Her finger had some really bad staining from a modern quarter

@@josh88113 I guess the quarter had an alloy with more of copper. And it's the oxidization that usually leaves the stain. Blue to green. And that's toxic. Silver coins would be better option.

@@RajendraRajani I tried a 90% silver coin and she still got stains. She said it happens with sterling silver too. I’m gonna try some UV resin on it

@@josh88113 Great. My sister has somewhat similar problem. She's allergic to most metals (except gold) and has to wear resin strap wrist watch without metal buckle. I'll be happy to know how you fare with UV resin part. I'm in India and haven't come across the UV resin concept.

Don't get one so tight it cuts off the flow of blood ?

I don't do anything on these coins, nothing will prevent it long term and I fear some of the chemicals in coatings may be worse than the metal itself.

@Joshua The Jeweler I use clear nail polish on mine every 6mo or so, it works just fine. But I was just wondering if you had something better. Nice work, what is the silver coin cut off 1964?

@Don T. Ripfüller it's the metal content and not fitment

@@dont.ripfuller6587 has nothing to do with the size 😂😂😂😂😂

I agree, 100 %...though 'simple' is a relative term, and it helps to have the correct tools. Can you make jewelry out of coins in China? The older ones already had a hole (square hole) in the center, easier start...hahahaha

It’s a ring mandrel

for smaller sizes I simply press the coin into a smaller hole in the die. For larger I will use a ring stretcher.

Not usually for a standard quarter but I may for older coins as they tend to be more work hardened

Yes I sell silver coin rings on my website: Joshuathejeweler.com.

Yeah, you know your anvils. Late 18th century Colonial for sure. About 240lbs. I bought it off a lady who dug it out of her yard in Durham, NC.

@@joshuathejeweler that's cool, brought back to life, looks amazing!

My camera is a little out of focus in those frames, but the ring shown at the end is actually the same one you see me working on from the beginning, no cracks. I don't exactly have a ton of 2017 Frederick Douglass quarters lying around :) Older coins are more prone to splitting, so I typically anneal those.

@@joshuathejeweler I looked again and what I saw was the edge of the ring you are wearing on your finger and it looked (I only saw it for a fraction of a second) as though the ring you are making split. I was wrong, thanks for replying and like I said, good work.😀😀😀

Yes I do on joshuathejeweler.com

Not for this one but I do anneal for older coins or larger ring sizes

Actually no, not with a modern quarter. The nickel is very tough and doesn’t deform much and the only part of the coin in contact with the die is the very edge of the outside and inside rim. Silver coins are a different story however because they are softer.

@@joshuathejeweler ty, I have never seen it done that way, I think I'll try it.

No annealing on this one, why waste time am I right? Yes it increases the internal stress in the material, older coins (pre-2000) I typically anneal first.

I can do that for you, dimes make small rings, about size 5 max. If interested please contact me via my website: Joshuathejeweler.com.

Yeah newer coins have enough malleability to ring without annealing. If it’s old or needs to be stretched larger it will require annealing.

Most likely he used the spoon tapping method, that's the old school way. Takes a bit of patience though.

Old bills are regularly destroyed and it has been STONGLY suggested that nobody will ever face consequences for defacing US currency as long as they aren't trying to counterfeit bills.

I'm pretty sure you could buy all the necessary tools for this process for under $250. That may be pricey for some.

I can make a ring in about 4 minutes without annealing, so that would just slow down production. Some older coins I may anneal or if I need to stretch to a larger size.

These coins are 80% copper with a nickel coating unless they’re the limited silver edition

I have another video under 1 minute :)

Hmm, Disney's penny smashing machines didn't raise much of a ruckus

It was illegal to deface coins until around the early 70s. Then the Federal Government decide that money is the peoples and they could do what they wanted with it. It just ceased to be money (legal tender).

My brother in christ, it is no longer the 1950s, try doing some research first 🤣🤣

@@acemator569 na I’ll do whatever I want. 😂 appreciate your concern tho.

Too bad you’re misinformed. It’s illegal to turn a penny into a dime, a quarter into a 50 cent piece, a half dollar into a dollar coin… that’s what’s illegal not this 😂😂

Great! shipping is $15 in the USA ;)

It's actually the Governments Money 😢

I understand you do not know how to look up information. It's clearly written in federal law that until you attempt to spend the altered currency, no law has been broken.

@@davidmorse2149 Section 331 of Title 18 of the United States code provides criminal penalties for anyone who fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the Mints of the United States. This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent. Since you are too fucking stupid to research anything

@@davidmorse2149 please keep going and show the world how stupid you are

@@davidmorse2149 you may want to quit when you're so far behind. You're really starting to sound stupid. I gave you what you asked for and it clearly spells it out for you

@@davidmorse2149 i get upset when idiots don't know how to comprehend what they are reading and then keep running their damn mouths. It's trump logic. Keep running at the mouth even when you're wrong. I could say grass is green and you'd be like nuhhh uhhhh

$15 dollars shipping in lower 48.

Never fails! Always someone misinformed saying this!

all the tools I used are listed in the description

@@joshuathejeweler Got it and thank you. Nice video.

That coin was worth about 5 cents metal value (copper) and 25c monetary face value. But even if it was part of a silver proof set, which it obviously isn’t, it would still be worth only about $10.00. It’s far better off as a ring, lol.

More like $0.25. It's just a quarter or at least it was.

@@joshuathejeweler: I wish I could turn all my quarters into $20 rings, lol. I’d be richer than Rumplestiltskin!! Oh, and btw, what do you do with the centre punchout?

Look at coin collectors pricing you think it's worth that but it's worth more than you know.

@@dwaynechmielewski900: There were 482,000,000 (that’s nearly half a billion) 2017 US quarters minted and probably still in circulation…except the one in this video, lol. They have a value of 25c in circulated condition and 50c in mint uncirculated condition. As scrap metal they’re worth about 5c copper value. Even a solid silver mint condition proof is worth only $10 and there are half a million of those out there. It’s worth far more as a ring either way.

Dude who cares. Dont b hating! Those laws are garbage. They should b enforcing some other serious stuff. Get a freaking life. Josh u got mad skills thanx for sharing with us

Key word in that law is "fraudulent" as in defacing it for the purposes fraud, not jewelry making.

Completely legal to change money into jewelry. The law about defacing is to cover making currency appear to be a more valuable piece of currency. Ie nickel to look like quarter or adding mint marks or errors to a less desireabe piece

Exactly, there is no intent to defraud. They sell coin jewelry at the US mint gift shop. And Disney's old penny smashing machines never caused a lawsuit.