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Description: | Modern copper alloy finger ring made from a George VI penny. The ring is D-shaped in cross-section, convex on the outside and flat on the inner side. The outer side is corroded but appears to have no surviving decoration. On the inner side is the remains of the coin's design. The inscription can be seen, reading ONE PENNY with the helmet of Britannia between the words, and then the date: 1940. It seems to have been deliberately shaped to retain these elements of the design. It is 20.0mm in diameter, 4.9mm wide and 1.4mm thick, it weighs 2.21 grams.Given the date of the penny, this is possibly a piece of 'trench art' produced during the second world war by someone in the armed forces or a prisoner of war. Coins made into finger rings were popular examples of trench art in the first world war.They were also made more recently: Peter Ecob has helpfully commented: When I did a civilian apprenticeship at a R.E.M.E. depot during the mid 1960's one or two of the apprentices made these rings and brass canons etc. during their time there. The pennies were made using a press and were easy to make. The dates could have been anywhere from the Victorian period to the 1960's as they were all in circulation at that time.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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