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tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
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I guess these two can be classified as Love Tokens
The first is hosted by a 1887 Morgan with nice patina. It was a present from the children to their parents on their 25th wedding anniversary
The second is hosted by a 1871 Liberty Seated Dollar. It is a birth announcement Sept 12 1869
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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • MisterBungleMisterBungle Posts: 2,308 ✭✭✭

    The first is hosted by a 1887 Morgan with nice patina.

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    I like the way they machined out the center but left
    the denticles on this one. Very well done.
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    A rare Dahlonega Love Token.

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  • granddadgranddad Posts: 966 ✭
    The second one would have to be a belated birth announcement. The child was born in 1869 and the coin is an 1871.


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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    This should be a great thread.

    Here's a coin board from 1934/35 manufactured by a paper company named Post . Whitman would later buy the rights to the Post coin boards and the rest is history.

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  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    tydye, those are just awesome.
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  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The child was born in 1869 and the coin is an 1871 >>



    I have owned this coin for years and never noticed something so seemingly obvious
  • mepotmepot Posts: 586 ✭✭✭
    tyedye,thats some nice engraving on those coins.This one is not as 'refined',but I like it anyways.image

    You don't see too many of these on seated dollars,mostly trade dollars.


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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Stone Mountain Sterling Candy Dish

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  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    100 years ago - Just give me a time machine and few hundred dollars
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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,029 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • StopMotionStopMotion Posts: 1,387

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  • mach19mach19 Posts: 4,459 ✭✭✭
    Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979 ✭
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    Shrunken quarter. Yes it is real. For anyone interested - there's a couple of old threads about these if you search.
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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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  • ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    Not nearly as cool but, here is my Red Ryder BB Buffalo. You`ll shoot your eye out! image

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  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
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    And with a Morgan for size...

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    Neat thread! image

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,670 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Could be the 1871 Dollar was given to the child on her 10 Birthday.
  • morgannut2morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
    No one knows what they are--most times time I don't eithr!imageimage
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  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    tydye, the Clarke catalog, is there any indication as to when it was issued or printed?

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Medals on a medal ...

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  • WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A "whatzit"

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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    cool stuff everyone!
  • LastExitInNYLastExitInNY Posts: 600 ✭
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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    Intitials "BM" is there anything else hidden in thee? Is that a 1877dime?
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  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭


    << <i>the Clarke catalog, is there any indication as to when it was issued or printed? >>



    The first page makes mention of the "NEW" $10 and $20 gold pieces - so I would say 1907 or soon thereafter
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lincoln cent.
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    Larry

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey everybody - neat items so far!!

    Here is one of my more recent purchases. Anybody else seen one?
    It was available at the dedication of the Stone Mountain Memorial in 1970.
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  • LastExitInNYLastExitInNY Posts: 600 ✭


    << <i>Intitials "BM" is there anything else hidden in thee? Is that a 1877dime? >>

    its a quarter. I dont even know what else is on that reverse. image
  • tsymonstsymons Posts: 14
    Here is my only Love Token. (My wife says it is her's since it has here intitals on it.) Got is today in a bag of coins from my father-in-law.

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    Tom
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    The photos are too big to link here.

    Front view of mint balance scale
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  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
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    David
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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
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    Whitehead-Hoag 1947 circa
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  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭
    First, an encased postage stamp I showed before, but it certainly qualifies as odd and unusual.
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    Second, since we have a medal with medals on it, this is a medal with a coin on it. And I think it may be an accented hair. This was the medal given to Harry X Boosel (Mr 1873) for his service on the Assay Commission of this year.
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  • dcamp78dcamp78 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭


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    Is the first picture the reverse of the second picture?
    If so, have you figured out the symbology yet?

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 44,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Holy cow. Those silver- and gold-dollar love tokens are exquisite. image

    I just deleted the pix I had of that huge piece of Swedish plate money. Oh, well. Maybe TUMUSS can post it. I think he was the one who bought it from me.

    I need to scan the hobo nickel Billzach made for me one of these days.

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  • thezookrewthezookrew Posts: 650 ✭
    How about this:

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Russia 1896 bank bag lead seal- recently sold. Coin detail is easy to see in a larger image.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    As a 3 Dollar note, it is already queer. This is a Cotton Pledge from the Confederate State of Mississippi.
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  • RegulatedRegulated Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm sure I will live to regret this, but... These are a few pieces from a group that I bought for myself a few months ago - some of the best stuff in this 30-year collection is far too racy for the forum; still, if you are easily offended, move on - nothing to see here:

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,641 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
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    The hero of Pea Ridge over a Fleagle?

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  • redsreds Posts: 262 ✭
    Bashlow 1861 cent hub trials rev. and obv. in silver I think imagehttp://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l125/wood5g/obv.jpg
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    There are lots of neat stuff on this thread! Keep it up.

    This isn't all that unusual, but as it is from my Grandmother it is special to me.

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  • redsreds Posts: 262 ✭
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  • DoctorPaperDoctorPaper Posts: 616 ✭✭✭
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