A long time ago I was asked by my mother to fix a pair of earrings. But because they had patinaed Roman coins bezel set in them, I decided to recreate the settings. I started off with this:
First thing to do was measure where I wanted the bezel, and where I wanted to open the backs.
After measuring I sawed out part of the silver disk to both lighten it and allow the backs of the coins to be seen. I then polished the disks lightly because I would be sautering the bezel on soon.
I created the bezels using fine silver, before sautering on the the disks i need to check that the coins fit.
Sautering.
Once I had everything attached I had to polish. Polishing around the beads was difficult, but I got it. Finally, I set the coins and gave one last polish.
The final earrings are a little rough, and the beads do not match each other perfectly. But, the coins themselves don't match each other, and are rather rough. I wanted to give it that slightly imperfect look.
