Framerguy
PFG, Picture Framing God
I have alot of airmen coming in from Eglin AFB with collector coins from the different campaigns to which they have been assigned and also pocket carried "challenge coins". (That's a whole 'nother story!) and these coins range from the size of a half dollar to bigger than a silver dollar. Most are round but they range from oval to multi-sided and are decorated on bkoth sides. These guys want their coins mounted so that they can take them out and show the reverse sides to their friends when asked. I carry coin display cases just for this purpose but most of them want shadowboxes designed with all their memorabilia from the campaigns included with the coins.
I have gotten all the whys and wherefores worked out with the shadowboxes that they can be opened easily and the finishing of them inside and out but I haven't come up with a good solution to the actual mounting of the coins. I have tried sink mounts, sink mounts with mylar strips behind them, Mighty Mounts (as a last resort when they happen to fit the coin), and I haven't come up with a method that will cut the sink openings small enough, accurately, and with consistency to depend on it for doing these coin mounts. If the openings are too small by a fraction, the coin is hard to set in the opening and remove, if too large by just a fraction, the coin has a tendency to fall out of the opening by just removing the top of the shadowbox or bumping the wall where it hangs.
Some of these coins are real works of art! And the mounts have to be such that no damage or scratching can occur when they are removed or replaced.
I have this vision of something similar to a pill bottle cap cut in half (sort of like a half moon shape) only with a double side so the coin could fit down into the slot formed by the sides. The mount could then be attached to the backing by the back side of the half "bottle cap". Has anyone seen such a mount or something similar to it??
I have expended all my ideas and have come up with a big goose egg so far. I know somebody has had the same problem and has such a simple solution that I will shout, "Why didn't I thing of that!!"
('Cause I'm getting a bit dense in my advanced stage of life, that's why!)
Framerguy
I have gotten all the whys and wherefores worked out with the shadowboxes that they can be opened easily and the finishing of them inside and out but I haven't come up with a good solution to the actual mounting of the coins. I have tried sink mounts, sink mounts with mylar strips behind them, Mighty Mounts (as a last resort when they happen to fit the coin), and I haven't come up with a method that will cut the sink openings small enough, accurately, and with consistency to depend on it for doing these coin mounts. If the openings are too small by a fraction, the coin is hard to set in the opening and remove, if too large by just a fraction, the coin has a tendency to fall out of the opening by just removing the top of the shadowbox or bumping the wall where it hangs.
Some of these coins are real works of art! And the mounts have to be such that no damage or scratching can occur when they are removed or replaced.
I have this vision of something similar to a pill bottle cap cut in half (sort of like a half moon shape) only with a double side so the coin could fit down into the slot formed by the sides. The mount could then be attached to the backing by the back side of the half "bottle cap". Has anyone seen such a mount or something similar to it??
I have expended all my ideas and have come up with a big goose egg so far. I know somebody has had the same problem and has such a simple solution that I will shout, "Why didn't I thing of that!!"
('Cause I'm getting a bit dense in my advanced stage of life, that's why!)

Framerguy