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This necklace is thought to have been part of a gift from a bridegoom
to his bride. The coins are from eighteenth-century Austria. It
was collected in the early twentieth century. The recycling of coins
to create jewellery is practised all over the world. Coins may have
been used in this way as a display of wealth, or because they were
aesthetically pleasing, or, if a foreign coin was used, as a taste
of the ‘exotic’.
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database record 1940.12.7
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