| When it comes to jewelry, there are some | | | | everyone else has. You can choose the one that |
| trends that are gaining ground with a lot of | | | | has the most meaning for you, or just whichever |
| people, and one of those trends is making | | | | one you think is the most beautiful. |
| necklaces and other jewelry items out of old | | | | There are two specific coin sizes, one slightly |
| coins. The widows mite is one of the coins that | | | | smaller than the other, and they have similar |
| they often choose because of the beauty and | | | | markings on them. However, that doesn't mean |
| also because of the historical significance. In Biblical | | | | that they all look the same. Some of them are |
| lore the widows mite referred to the two small | | | | quite different because they weren't all cut the |
| coins that a widow put into the offering plate | | | | same. Now there are replicas made of the |
| even though she had very little and they were | | | | widows mite coins, too, because the original ones |
| the last of her money. Jesus praised what she | | | | are very rare and quite expensive. You can just |
| had done because there were many people who | | | | get a replica coin and have it turned into jewelry, |
| had a lot of money and they gave very little of it, | | | | or you can buy the coin already in a necklace |
| but she gave all that she had. Now there are | | | | from various places on the Internet. If you decide |
| many people who are interested in the widows | | | | to buy one, be sure that you're getting something |
| mite coins and they collect them, but turning | | | | that's high quality and that you're very happy |
| them into jewelry has become relatively popular in | | | | with, because even replicas are expensive. You |
| recent years. The beauty of these coins lends | | | | won't pay thousands of dollars but you'll pay |
| itself to using them for artistic purposes, and one | | | | hundreds, and you don't want something that |
| of those purposes is through jewelry. There are | | | | won't last and that you won't be happy with for a |
| several different kinds of widows mite coins, too, | | | | long time to come. |
| so you don't have to get the same kind that | | | | |