I don't necessarily recommend coating an entire bra with coins if you are such a large bra size. For one, the boobs are already heavy enough, without adding tons more weight. Coins are damn heavy, and they put strain on your neck or shoulders (depending on the straps you choose). For another, you don't want to look like you're wearin plate mail! Smaller boobie girls look opulent with bras coated in coins. Big busted gals look like they are going to war.

How many it takes depends greatly on the spacing and chosen amount of overlap, the particular style and cut of the bra you are applying them to, the size and shape of the coins, and whether or not you are putting anything else on the bra (such as a trim along the top of the bra, or leaving the underside of the cups only covered in fabric, but not coated in coins). So very difficult to answer! It takes as many as it takes!

I would say if you put 50 on and still aren't done with one cup, I would adjust the design a little. Allow for some other trims and items to dress it up (look at FC bras--they have tokens, chain, bells, etc), and leave some space on the underside of nthe cups to keep from looking like a knight on horseback!

Assuit may be a nice fabric answer to getting some shimmer/sparkle w/o the weight...
Perhaps cover the whole bra in it, then sparingly add coins, bells, charms, etc.

There's folks on ebay that sell new assuit for OK price, so it doesn't feel so tragic to cut it up for use in costuming.... :)

Or perhaps using a piece of Rajasthani mirror fabric to cover the top section, then add coins below?

I recommend spacing the coins. Here's a picture of a coin bra I made for myself (32F made on a 34DD bra):

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As it is in that picture, was WAY too heavy. I took off all the fringing and changed out the red pendant for a smaller one and it's much better now. The coins are spaced apart and interspersed with those little turkoman buttons, but fringed pendants or light fringe is a great way to fill in some of the space between coins.

Now I made a different coin bra (also on a 34DD base cuz 32Fs are hard to find AND *expensive*). Sadly I don't have a picture of that one to share but instead of using actual coins I got the egyptian pressed coins (like you find on a standard hip scarf) for cheap from eBay and covered the cups ENTIRELY and it's super-light and comfy! I suppose that's sort of "tribaret" but I used a dark maroon trim and a black bra base and it looks pretty "tribal" to me!

I used a belt base to line the top of my bra, then a line of cowry shells, and coins to cover the lower half. It weighs more than a small child, but I'm too lazy to make another one. I like the way it looks, but using a mirrored piece would have probably made it much lighter.
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I used coins sparingly on my last bra as even though I am only a C cup I find my first coin bra very heavy on my neck.

Try using those gillet medallions you can buy, they are super light and have the look of coins....I also used piece of light metal fringing to split the bra cup in half and cover most of the lower part so I didn't have to bother with any extra deco's.

While this is not an ATS photo I wear this bra for both Fusion and ATS - see here
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I also made the bra my ptr is wearing and that was just some cool fringing plus a couple of light coin pendants on the outside edge of the cup - Super Quick and easy!

One tip if the bra is heavey is to have a crossback instead of a halterneck. I´m a D and I have many solid conis on my bra but it´s not tha heavey on because I have crossback so no wight on my neck!