My mum gave me hers a couple of years ago when I had my eternity/30th/finished my PhD ring (it was a busy time!!) made. I used the gold as part of my ring. Saved me a few hundred dollars but it was the sentiment ie that it came from her (not my birth father who is an a-hole) that I loved.
She divorced when I was 2 so obviously had them sitting in a drawer for a while!!