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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
Posts: 18,689
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There was a regular vendor at the local craft market here in town (Saturday Morning Market, under the Burnside Bridge) who made some pretty handsome suede moccasins, in a tall boot style; you could buy them with either buffalo nickels or mercury dimes up the leg as an embellishment - about 10 coins per boot, as I recall.
Im pretty sure he drilled the coins out like a button and stitched them to the leather.
As a non collector, I always wondered just how valuable those coins were.
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