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16 October 2009 5,685 views 6 Comments

by heather

Craftster user lasandri of sandrisuperstar made this amazing penny necklace using 36 pennies and some jump rings! I love the use of pennies, love the asymmetrical shape, and love the price to make it! For those of you who are going to ask, it's NOT illegal to alter/use pennies to make art. It's only illegal to deface money for fraudulent purposes. (United States Code Section 331, title 18). I love the idea of using pennies to make jewelry! [click here for the craftster thread featuring this necklace]

How lasandri made it: she drilled the holes with a hand drill using a tiny bit (she doesn't know what size because the bits weren't marked). She used jump rings to put it together. It took her about five hours to drill the holes and an hour to put it together (if you calculate your pay-per-hour, that makes this necklace MUCH more expensive than 36 cents!!) If you don't have the patience for a large-scale project like this, you can easily make penny earrings using this as inspiration in minutes, or a bracelet in less than an hour.

I have seen jump rings for sale at my local dollar store, so the cost for raw materials is pretty low for this high-impact necklace!

Project Estimate:

36 pennies, $.36
Jump rings, $1
A clasp, on hand
A drill, on hand

Total: $1.36

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6 Comments »

Vone said:

Great idea. I have coins from different places I have visited that would make great jewlery.

# 16 October 2009 at 12:13 pm

Nury said:

This is a great idea, i love it. But i don’t know if i could do it here since i live in Canada, and not sure if that would be ilegal here. But i love that idea!

# 16 October 2009 at 11:57 pm

Who doesn’t love a penny necklace? | Fabulously Broke in the City said:

[...] Via Dollar Store Crafts. [...]

# 18 October 2009 at 4:33 am

Katie said:

A great idea would be to use a single penny to make a charm. I did this for a friend’s birthday using a penny from the year of her birth. Good luck AND cute!

# 18 October 2009 at 10:47 am

heather (author) said:

Ooh! Cool idea!!

# 18 October 2009 at 12:02 pm

sandrisuperstar.com» Blog Archive » oh this old thing? said:

[...] i made this necklace a million years ago (ok, maybe 3 or 4?) and now it’s popping up in blogs now. i made it for an etsy contest about reusing items you might throw away… i’ve known [...]

# 19 October 2009 at 3:14 am

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