Manufacturer should offer more coin type options.
For those of you all who would love to have a Morgan Silver Dollar coin ring I have a request. Instead of destroying a beautiful piece of history, could you kindly ask the ring maker to substitute a private mint's Morgan Silver Round in place of a US made Morgan coin.  There are at least 2 or 3 manufacturers who make Morgan Rounds/copies that are 90% reproductions of the originals and would save the old ones for future Americans to enjoy collecting and trading. One such Mint I found during an Internet search was 'Sunshine Mint Incorporated' (SMI) which manufactures a Silver Morgan Round that after it is converted into a ring the only text missing, compared to a US Morgan, will be the coin date and the phrases 'In God we trust' & 'ONE DOLLAR'. I prefer the rings with 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' on the outside and these Silver Rounds have that. At this writing (08/15/16), 'Silver.com' had them in stock for about $22. They also have an old style 'Seated Liberty' Round and a current style 'Silver Eagle' Round, both for about a buck more. On other web sites I could only find a few Silver or Copper Rounds with the 'USofA' motif but I'm sure there are more. Amazon has for sale '1 Ounce 2012 .999 Pure Copper Bullion Round Modern Quarter Reverse Design' which would make a nice substitute for the Morgan. I did not see a Silver Round here with the 'USofA' text on the face though.<br /><br />I realize that there are millions of Morgans still in collections and circulating around but these pieces of art are not going to be around forever. If you really need a full-sized 'US' Dollar coin ring I would also suggest using the Eisenhower Dollar coin instead. Since nobody REALLY liked 'Ike' anyway and they look pretty good when finished. There were about 700 million 'Ikes' produced from 1971 thru 1978 with the majority of those being made in 1976, 1972 and 1971. Compare that to about 650 million Morgans produced between 1878 and 1921 and some (est. 200 million) of those Morgans were melted down by .gov/Uncle Stupid.<br /><br />My 2 cents only. Sorry 'bout the toes stepped on.
Rating: 4 stars