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Description: | A complete silver finger ring of Modern date (AD 1910-1936). The ring is circular in plan and rectangular in section. The inner surface has repeating transvers ridges running along a linear fold around the circumference of the inner surface and along the upper, outer edge. The object has been constructed from a George V coin, most likely a half crown.The outer surface retains the inscription from the obverse of the coin which reads:GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: BRITT: IMN: REXThe method of manufacture for this object then would appear to be folding of the silver inward to create the band.Given the date of the coin it is highly probable that this represents a piece of 'trench art' produced during the First or 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.Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Database: Unique ID: HESH-355004, Unique ID: LVPL-675360, Unique ID: LVPL-F9D537 and Unique ID: SOM-AE96C7.However these are predominantly from Penny's or copper alloy denominations. Therefore this example is unusual as it is of a silver denomination.Also an incomplete example which demonstrates the hammering/folding process to transform the coin into a finger ring: Unique ID: SUR-D2D574
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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