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Picked up a Love Token Bracelet - Seated Dimes
Lakesammman
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Was in Renton yesterday and stopped at the coin shop. They have a old fashioned coin board and the closing was around 3PM. I saw this bracelet there and was intriqued by it. I bid and stuck around for 30 minutes 'till closing and won it.
The coins date from 1872 to 1889, presumably reflecting roughly the dates around when the tokens were added to the bracelet. It fits my wife nicely and she likes this sort of stuff.
The coins date from 1872 to 1889, presumably reflecting roughly the dates around when the tokens were added to the bracelet. It fits my wife nicely and she likes this sort of stuff.
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I would encourage all love-token enthusiasts to check out the Love Token Society's website at www.lovetokensociety.net.
Kyle
In fact, I thought about doing another hat with nothing but those on it. (Since the back of the vest already has a date set of holed large cents.) Maybe even a date set of holey Seated dimes with love token reverses- that would be challenging, even if I stuck with only Legend Obverse pieces, which seemed to be the coins of the golden era of love tokens. They seem to be the most common type and denomination for love tokens.
I found one love token on an 1887 dime that had "Lillian" ornately engraved on it, with a garland of roses. A breathtaking example of the all-but-lost engraver's art. I gave that to my mother, since Lillian is her name. She attached it to her watchband. My mother was named after my maternal great-grandmother Lillian Adelaide Adams, who died young in 1922. We liked to speculate that there was a chance the love token had belonged to her originally and came back to us through coincidence. (It probably didn't, as my great-grandmother Lillian was born in 1894, but you never know.)
The people who had the skill to do such engraving by hand would today be working for the BEP making plates for paper money, no doubt. That's one of the few examples I can think of where somebody today has to have that intricate skill.
Lordmarcovan - this is the first time I've ever noticed all the coins on you.....
Check out some of my 1794 Large Cents on www.coingallery.org
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