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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4247220, member: 5833&quot;]Thank you.&nbsp; It does rather have that look, doesn&#039;t it?&nbsp; It reminds me of glaciers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The clasp is only the right way up with the operculum side outward.&nbsp; And I just don&#039;t see how the coins could have been linked together first, then refashioned into bezels after, &amp; have the connections come out looking like this, with the links running through the bezel:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]337137[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen another that was the same idea except the coins used were US coins from the Philippines &amp; in between the operculums (operculi?) there was the US Navy insignia.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s yet another one:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/714135278/australia-coin-bracelet-operculum-shell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/714135278/australia-coin-bracelet-operculum-shell" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/714135278/australia-coin-bracelet-operculum-shell</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.etsystatic.com/5557588/r/il/067a78/2168679169/il_794xN.2168679169_2hz5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Makes me think this was an idea for a leisure project that was circulating among the armed forces, maybe specifically the Pacific navies, just after WWII.&nbsp; Imagine there&#039;s a lot of down time when you&#039;re the occupying force.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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