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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 10201656, member: 360&quot;]Keeping in touch with your Irish roots, are yah, laddie? </p><p><br /></p><p>But yeah, coin belts like these were basically the lower-end of Peranakan silver belts. They were extremely popular, so families would scrape together any spare silver change coinage, and turn them into belts like these. I&#039;ve sen some which are more elaborate, I&#039;ve seen ones which are simpler. If you couldn&#039;t afford this (or a chain belt like the one in my picture), then the &quot;last resort&quot; was to buy a nickel belt, plated in silver, but that was really scraping the bottom of the barrel. </p><p><br /></p><p>Belts made of gilt brass also existed, although I&#039;ve never personally come across one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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