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Unusual Seated Quarter Love Token

Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I run across love tokens in the course of looking at Seated Quarters on ebay, but I've never seen one with a cut out like this. Very cool. It's almost certainly a Catholic reference. I'm guessing the "D of E" is the "Diocese of E??????" Since it's dated 1871, it could probably be researched to a specific Diocese or event.


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  • jayPemjayPem Posts: 3,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a cool one..
    Quarters are a great denomination for love tokens 👍

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice love token.... Not often seen with cutouts (except for holes). Cheers, RickO

  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,224 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm guessing it'd technically not a love token as such, but a badge of some kind. But nice piece, whatever it is.

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 3,690 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I collect religious related love tokens. I like this one a lot.

    http://www.SmallDollars.com
  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,388 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kinda nice that they spared the date. I like it.

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  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Namvet69 said:
    Kinda nice that they spared the date. I like it.

    I think the cutout was purposely placed to show that way on the obv.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,256 ✭✭✭✭✭

    FWIW, when I first saw it I thought it was a funerary piece, but that is just a hunch.

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,388 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Keeping it simple, I thought "D of E" is Death of E ???

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  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sold for $51 on ebay. Seems like a good price.

  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkwM3GLW8BQ
    Maybe the 1961 "Duke of Earl" was just a cover version? :)

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 3,690 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CaptHenway said:
    FWIW, when I first saw it I thought it was a funerary piece, but that is just a hunch.

    I'm an idiot. I had to look up "funerary". :s

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  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 3,690 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Manifest_Destiny said:
    Sold for $51 on ebay. Seems like a good price.

    I had a slightly higher bid set to go, but cancelled it at the last moment because of the solder on the obverse. If the pin was still attached I would've gone much higher.

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  • Manifest_DestinyManifest_Destiny Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:
    Maybe the 1961 "Duke of Earl" was just a cover version? :)

    Nailed it!

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 7,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Duke of Edinburgh" ??

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

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