The coolest 'coin' I have ever found at a coin show, Charles II Love token
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Bought this today at the Lockport, NY coin show today. I have never seen something like this before. A love token from 1782 on a Charles II (1660-1685) halfcrown. It cost me many pretty pennies, probably paid way too much for it. But I think it is really cool.
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<< <i>very nice, i'm gonna make some more of those this week!!
You sneaky Eliz, you...
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Kool Love token.
<< <i>very nice, i'm gonna make some more of those this week!!
I'm gonna have to fire up my dremel tool....
To tell you the truth, it was love tokens and exonumia that most turned my head at the Charlotte show. I guess I've gotten so jaded by everything else, it took something "different" to jazz up my interest. I only ended up taking home about three pieces, though- one being the WW1 dogtag on the French coin that you got from me, the other a love token on a US Seated quarter, and the third just an unusual token (not hand-engraved).
Seeing an 18th century love token is refreshing, though- that is a fascinating piece. Interesting that it was engraved on a coin that was already a century old.
Maybe ye Dead King will post a picture of the love token 1773 Spanish 1-real he dug while out detecting in 1994 or so. I was immediately green with envy over such a find. It too looks to have been engraved a century or so after the host coin was struck- it's very Victorian in style. Has the initial "M", as I recall. At the time, I think Michael was a little disappointed not to have found an unengraved coin, but I think it being a love token added to its appeal rather than detracted from it. Later, when he moved briefly to SC, near Charleston, and I was paying him a visit, I dug up a Mexico City 1-real that had been made into a love token, and an early one at that, but it was very crude and primitive.