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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 10202710, member: 360&quot;]Thanks. I actually find the coin-belts extremely interesting, just because they&#039;re so customisable. They were made of literally whatever coins the nyonya (or more likely, her father or husband) had lying around, and could scrape together, and save, to turn into a belt. I&#039;ve seen them made of old Chinese coins, old Straits coins, and old Dutch coins (because of Dutch East Indies, etc). There&#039;s no one specific way to make them, because they were all handmade, according to the desires or imagination of the commissioner - the silversmith just did whatever, and knocked it together for them. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like to think that this is the sort of thing that my great-grandfather was doing, 120-odd years ago...which he probably was.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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