making cabochon with coin inclusion?

[Tom Fuhrman]

I used to put copper pennies in bottles and paperweights when I had my furnace. I would make a small indentation/cup in the gather then insert the coin and attach a 2nd gather on the cup's edge to encapsulate the coin. For fusers I would try making a small cup shape and then put the copper penny in and tack fuse a flat disc on the cup. Copper pennies are those that are classified as
wheat" pennies. I just found a jar with several hundred in a box I had stored and forgot I had.
Putting a coin in a small bottle shape on a torch should be quite easy. Seal off a tube, insert coin , seal other end tubing. Solid copper coins seem to work best just as inclusions of copper wire are easy to do.

[Brad Walker]

Don't try this with pennies made after 1983 -- they're zinc, not copper. Pennies made before 1983 are copper, and pennies made in 1983 could be either.