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　　BACK in the 1960s, Bulgari, the Italian fine jewelry company, brought back a 1000-year-old Roman tradition of putting coins into jewelry as a signature look in its own heavy gold necklaces, bracelets(手镯)and rings．It is a charming bit of aesthetic(美学的)currency that the company continues to revisit in its designs today．

　　As it happens, coin pieces are now much in demand, thanks to a new crop of designers who are putting their loose change into a variety of attractive investment options, or designs．

　　Meanwhile, in Paris, at the Balenciaga fall collection, Nicolas Ghesquiere showed old coins swinging from the edge of ties．Coin coincidence or value-added fashion?

　　“People are into old-looking things, and coins are more directly real if you are trying to get an antique look,” said Lisa Levine, a jewelry designer with a shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn．Her earrings and charm bracelets are loaded with an international representation of swinging coins, including Tunisian francs, Jamaican cents, German pfennigs and French centimes donated by friends from their preeuro piggy banks．

　　More rustic(乡村的)pieces incorporating ancient Roman coins turn up in the delicate(精致的)hand-hammered gold settings of rings and bracelets designed by Gurhan Orhan, a celebrity favorite since he moved his company from Istanbul to New York a decade ago．And coins sold in the old street markets of Tel Aviv inspired the Agasi ＆ Tamar collection of Einat Agasi and Tamar Harel Klein．They may not qualify as bus fare, but they fit the metallic fashion trends of the season to the penny．

　　Designers with interest in old money judge the artistry of ancient coins with a jeweler's eye for clarity, but other factors also come into play．Elizabeth Locke is particularly choosy about the Greek coins, describing winged horses, gods and emperors that she uses in her pendants(垂饰)and charms：they had best be handsome, like Alexander the Great．

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