Show your coins with holes here! Holed coins, as the name suggests, are coins that have been pierced with a hole after the minting process. This alteration can be attributed to a multitude of factors, such as for practical use, or in the creation of jewellery.
Holed coins are often collected due to their affordability and uniqueness, or as ‘gap fillers.’ Please show both coins holed as a part of the minting process and design, as well as coins pierced during their time in circulation.
I will start this thread with my Australian 1860 Hogarth & Erichsen Threepence. This is a somewhat difficult piece to acquire, so a holed example was purchased due to the affordability.
I'm away from home now and that's the only picture of it I have at hand
That Japanese rectangular one is nice, it is cool seeing a non-circular coin every once in a while! I like the dark toning on it too, it has a nice original look to it.
Here is an Australian 1934-35 Melbourne Centenary Florin coin. This one has been holed post-mint, possibly in an attempt to create a piece of jewellery such as a necklace.
Despite the hole, this is one of my favourite coins I own!
I read in some place that this kind of hole is because nails that ancient people hammered coins into the doors of their houses in order to have good luck. But I don't remember where I read that.
Drilling holes in coins is not something of the past, as demonstrates this coin.
I found it in what was supposed to be some talisman. It annoys me that the hole was applied randomly. Amateur. Why not just at the top?
That is quite interesting about the ‘random’ placement of the hole, I am not sure why it would be holed where it is. Was this a piece found in circulation by you?
Here is an Australian 1928 Shilling with a hole. I assume this was holed with the intent of displaying the king’s portrait, (whether on a necklace or pendant, etc.) due to the placement directly on the top of the King’s crown.
It is a shame about the hole on this piece, as it would be a VERY expensive coin otherwise.
It was attached to a bundle of colored strings. It would have hung upside down, but the bundle of strings could also support it in upright position. My daughter got it from someone at school but lost interest in it and gave it to me.
There is some tradition of lucky dimes (10 cts) in the Netherlands, but not so much for lucky halves. Moreover, even though we're good friends with the Germans, selecting a German coin for a luck token is not at all obvious over here. So I guess it’s just a random, dismal, randomly drilled half euro.
