Recently I had an interesting request for a custom-made resin paperweight. A solicitor firm asked me to make two paperweights containing £1.62 in coins (a £1 coin, a 50p coin, a 10p coin and a 2p coin).
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| Custom made coin paperweight |
The paperweights were to be given as gifts and were intended to jocularly mark the successful completion of a laborious book-keeping exercise which involved having to identify an apparent £1.62 discrepancy – eventually successfully completed! Above is the custom-made paperweight containing £1.62 in coins:
I love some of the more obscure stories behind the objects that I am asked to preserve within paperweights. Making these paperweights had me thinking about other paperweights I have been asked to make containing coins, and here are a few examples:
This paperweight I made contains a Queen Elizabeth II platinum jubilee £5 coin, made for a barrister to be given as a gift to his colleague.
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| Queen Elizabeth coin paperweight |
A paperweight containing a selection of United States one cent coins, presumably kept as a keepsake from a visit to the United States.
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| Bespoke paperweight containing one cent coins |
A New York souvenir coin, taken as a souvenir from a visit to the centre in 2001.
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| Souvenir coin paperweight |
These are just a small selection of the custom-made paperweights that I have made over the years containing special coins. Do you have any coins that you have kept for sentimental reasons?
Mick
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