Meaning of Graffiti on Bust Half

sellitstore

I have no clue. Any thoughts? Buy a vowel?

Smudge

Poor spelling?

TomB

Looks cool.

lilolme

Screenshot of one of the search results.

EDIT:
This one give the words for the letters on the reverse of the coin.

JBK

Might have been someone's practice piece.

jacrispies

Super cool!!

I second @lilolme with his search results, that looks like a good clue.

MsMorrisine

pretty nice!

ajaan

PMD and I would love to own it.

pursuitofliberty

Very interesting and pretty attractive piece.

Almost certainly follows the @lilolme finding as a presentation piece to a Freemason's Wife or Daughters who had shown the understanding of the Freemason's creed.

It's also not an really common Die Marriage (which I believe is an O-107) for the year.

CaptHenway

So the "S" is supposed to be a "Z?"

lilolme

@CaptHenway said:
So the "S" is supposed to be a "Z?"

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I think the short answer is Yes.

I originally typed in an S on the search but one result led me to a Z. Then things started to fall into place and including the AMRY. (which is being noted as anagram for MARY in some searches)

Looking at it more it appears the Z has been engraved similar to the OP as a S in some searches. Here are a couple of grave stones and the link to the articles. The second one even has a similar tilted S in the description. There are others (perhaps more modern) which show a typical Z.

https://alpha.creativecirclecdn.com/harrison/files/20240220-191039-HDT-02-21-2024-A12.pdf

https://wisecountytexas.info/cemeteries/hart-howard.htm

MsMorrisine

more coolness

Meltdown

Wow! Cool coin and great detective work.