US Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollar Coin Leather BELT - 40 inches - 9 coins

  • One Leather Belt with 9 U.S. Silver Half Dollar Coins (50¢ piece) as Conchos
  • Inlaid Conchos Style on a Western Style Belt.
  • The Coins are US Mint made & hand modified into Conchos and the Leather Belt is handmade.
  • Custom Made in the USA
  • There's a funny pun about real coin belts When wearing the belt, it's circulated. When not wearing the belt, it's uncirculated.
  • The belt is medium brown with black lacing.
  • The coins are authentic. There were reproductions of these belts made using fake coins but mine is the real deal.
  • The traditional belt size varies on the type of buckle used and whether or not holes need to be added. With a western style belt buckle hooked into the center hole I would call it a size 40. The buckle I used was about 2½ inches from metal hinged loop to the fastener pin. A buckle is not included.
  • The belt measures approximately 41 inches long by 1.78 inches (45¼ mm) wide by ~0.27 inch (6-7 mm) thick. Thickness varies because of the coins. The belt tongue (the narrow part that goes through the buckle to be hooked) less than 1½+ inches (~38 mm) wide. Where it folds to hold the buckle is ~1.41 inches (~36 mm) wide.
  • There are 5 pre-made holes to catch the buckle hook pin. The first hole is very approximately 4½+ inches from the tip. The holes are roughly less than an inch apart.
  • CONDITION: circulated coins - belt is unused old store stock - coins are used - belt is handmade in the USA.
  • Coins were hand polished and are extremely shiny. I used a blue silver cloth and they shined up real bright, which surprised me. Belt would either need more cleaning to moisturize the leather and maybe some opposite, less cleaning on the coins to develop the nice patina that Walking Liberty's are known for.
  • Part of the process involved spot heating the coins to attach rivets to make them inlaid. The Walking Liberty coins would occasionally tone from the process, other silver coins do not. These coins would also have other problems. Other silver halves weren't as finicky as the Walking Liberty's are. Some of the coins the attachment rivet on the back can be seen from the front. Some coins show to bumps on the front (obverse)
  • Unique Pictures of the actual item available in this listing.
  • This belt and others like it were handmade. Redd's Leather Shop of Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California produced the leatherwork on the belt. My Father and I acquired the coins and did the coin implants. We also made special leather working tools. Belts were sold at Knott's Berry Farm, coin dealers, and other jewelry stores throughout Southern California, Arizona, & New Mexico. We made them from about 1974 to the about 1982. Some belts were pre-made and others were custom made with specific colors, design, leatherworking, and coin choices. Lots of hours of work went into the making of each belt. I am one of the original makers and the only surviving one.
  • Using 1976 as an estimate of when the belt was made would make it approximately 44 years old. Of course the coins are much older.
  • All of the coins are the obverse side! You can not turn coins to see the other side.
  • Coins on this belt: (some are hard to read)
    1. 1938
    2. 1939
    3. 1940
    4. 1941
    5. 1942
    6. 1943
    7. 1944
    8. 1945
    9. 1946
  • More general FYI about the coins:
    • The obverse side is a Lady Liberty walking towards the Sun, holding branches and wearing a draped US American Flag over her shoulder.
    • Obverse side text is: LIBERTY IN GOD WE TRUST
    • There are no Reverse sides showing on this specific belt.
    • The reverse side with the American Eagle "...perched high upon a mountain crag, his wings unfolded, fearless in spirit and conscious of his power. Springing from a rift in the rock is a sapling of mountain pine, symbolical of America" outstretched holding in it's talons an olive branch & arrows.
    • Reverse side text is: UNITED•STATES•OF• AMERICA• HALF•DOLLAR E•PLURIBUS UNUM
    • The design is by Adolph Alexander Weinman
    • E PLURIBUS UNUM translates from Latin to: Out of many, one - which was the common motto from the USA seal from the late 1700's until 1956 when the motto officially became In God We Trust. This coin bears both.
      • Location of Mint Marks:
          • 1916 Obverse - below R in Trust
          • 1918-1947 Reverse - below the branch
          • 1917 either location above
          • no mint mark indicates P
      • Mint Marks: (none of the coins on this belt show the mint mark)
        • Unmarked indicates Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
        • D indicates Denver, Colorado
        • S indicates San Francisco, California


  • This ITEM is ON-HAND and READY TO SHIP to the LUCKY WINNER DIRECTLY from us in the USA!
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