Handmade coins from several Roman provinces,to include Constantine and family.
This handcrafted bracelet was made using a sterling silver serpentine link bracelet and several ancient coins from different emperor's, eras and province's from Rome. This includes Constantine the first as well as his predecessors and other family members. remarkably are bronze. there's a few silver. most of them already had holes in them. It was a tradition when somebody was leaving or when a family member got married to take a coin and run a piece of string through it and tie it around the brides head. It was used as a talisman for prosperity, luck and good fortune in the marriage. Also some of the coins you'll see look favor they've been broken. This is because they have been. Currency wasn't always used in a specific denomination. it was also accepted as a measurement of Example: a horse cost 1 half gram of gold.A house and farm cost a half ounce of silver, so on and so on.