US Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollar Coin Leather BELT 36 inches 10 coins

  

US Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollar Coin Leather BELT - 36 inches - 10 coins. One Leather Belt with 10 U. Silver Half Dollar Coins (50¢ piece) as Conchos.

Inlaid Conchos Style on a Western Style Belt. The Coins are US Mint made & hand modified into Conchos and the Leather Belt is handmade. There's a funny pun about real coin belts. When wearing the belt, it's circulated.

When not wearing the belt, it's uncirculated. The belt is dark brown with black lacing. There were other reproductions of these belts made using fake coins. This is not one of those.

The traditional belt size varies on the type of buckle used and whether or not holes need to be added. The belt measures approximately 36 inches long by 1.84 inches (46 mm) wide by 0.28 inch (6 mm) thick. The belt tongue (the narrow part) 1½+ inches (37-38 mm) wide.

Where it folds to hold the buckle is 1.56 inches (39 mm) wide. With a Western Style Belt Buckle that adds about 2½ inches it should fit a 31½ to 37 inches waist. There are 5 holes to catch the buckle hook. The first hole is 2.6 inches from the tip.

The holes are roughly less than an inch apart. Circulated coins - belt is unused old store stock - coins are used - approximately 36 inches long. This belt has never been worn. It would either need more cleaning or the opposite, less cleaning to develop the nice patina that Walking Liberty's are known for. Part of the process involved spot heating the coins to attach rivets to make them inlaid.

The Walking Liberty coins would occasionally tone from the process, other silver coins do not. These coins would also have other problems. Other silver halves weren't as finicky as the Walking Liberty's are.

Of the actual item available in this listing. This belt and others like it were handmade. Redd's Leather Shop of Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California produced the belt. My Father and I acquired the coins and did the coin implants.

We also made special leather working tools. We made them from about 1974 to the about 1982. Some belts were pre-made and others were custom made with specific colors, design, leatherworking, and coin choices. Lots of hours of work went into the making of each belt. Using 1980 as an estimate of when the belt was made would make it approximately 38 years old.

Of course the coins are much older. All of the coins are the obverse side! One can not turn coins to see the other side. Coins on t his belt: (some are hard to read).

More FYI about the coins. The obverse side is a Lady Liberty walking towards the Sun, holding branches and wearing a draped US American Flag over her shoulder. Obverse side text is: LIBERTY IN GOD WE TRUST.

There are no Reverse sides showing on this specific belt. The reverse side with the American Eagle... Perched high upon a mountain crag, his wings unfolded, fearless in spirit and conscious of his power. Springing from a rift in the rock is a sapling of mountain pine, symbolical of America outstretched holding in it's talons an olive branch & arrows. Reverse side text is: UNITED. The design is by Adolph Alexander Weinman. E PLURIBUS UNUM translates from Latin to: Out of many, one - which was the common motto from the USA seal from the late 1700's until 1956 when the motto officially became In God We Trust. This coin bears both statements. 1916 Obverse - below R in Trust.

No mint mark indicates P. Mint Marks: (none of the coins on this belt show the mint mark). S indicates San Francisco, California. From us in the USA!

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