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Tiny inscription on a 1909 Barber dime: Have you ever seen anything like this?

DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
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Here are photos of a love token I picked up at the Whitman Baltimore Expo. The host
coin is a 1909 Barber dime. The reverse features a line from a 1905 sentimental ballad
by Theodore F. Morse --- "Keep a Little Cozy Corner in Your Heart for Me" --- and is
signed by "Sadie."

The dime is in nice condition, so I imagine it was planed and engraved some time in
1909 or 1910, before it saw much if any circulation, and then it was set aside in a
safe place for generations.

I've never seen a love token with such a plain, text-only inscription (no flourishes,
scrolls, or fancy monograms). In fact, this is the smallest font I've ever seen on a
love token. Have you ever seen a love token of similar fabric?

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    image
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  • JJSingletonJJSingleton Posts: 1,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting. I have not seen another like it.

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  • coin4salecoin4sale Posts: 375 ✭✭✭
    very cool.

    have never seen one like it.

    BT&C
  • themasterthemaster Posts: 676 ✭✭✭
    That is unique. Is it also an error coin? "cosy"


    Have a Great Day!
    Louis
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  • BustHalfBrianBustHalfBrian Posts: 4,191 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That is unique... "cosy"
    >>



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  • coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭
    How did they apply such even, natural looking wear to completely remove the reverse details? I've always wondered that.
  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That is unique. Is it also an error coin? "cosy"


    Have a Great Day!
    Louis >>



    Looks like an inadvertent backward Z
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool image

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Not from Sadie
  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not plain, but certainly a small font:

    imageimage
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    With the exception of some Lord's Prayer pieces, I've never seen that small a font used on a love token.

    "Cosy" is not an error. It is the correct English (i.e., British) spelling of the word.

    Very neat piece. I like it. I've been finding myself warming up to love tokens again lately.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,715 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>That is unique. Is it also an error coin? "cosy"


    Have a Great Day!
    Louis >>



    Looks like an inadvertent backward Z >>



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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    jeweler's with pantograph's

    i haven't actively sought love tokens to know or have seen an example as such
    but surely many exist

    dull n plain...just simple stencil work on a pantograph

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,058 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>That is unique... "cosy"
    >>



    Education back then wasn't like it is today. image >>

    No spell check.image
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like an inadvertent backward Z >>

    I would've said no, but then again, comparing it to the "S" in "SADIE", it looks like you may be right.

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>jeweler's with pantograph's >>



    This coin is hand engraved. No two letters are the same. Even when they look alike at a glance, they are different upon inspection.
    They're crooked and all a different size also.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep...hand engraved... lots of differences in the E's, O's and R's...to cite a few. Cheers, RickO
  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    I am presently 'photographically challenged', and unable to post any pictures, but I have a 1795 LM-10/V4 Flowing Hair half dime with the name "Wm. F. Cline" hand engraved in the obverse field, in front of Miss Liberty's face. The engraving is very similar to the OP's coin, with very neat but tiny letters, hand engraved in a block letter font. I know, this post is useless without pictures, but if you're wondering how small the lettering is, remember, I said that it was engraved in the obverse field of a half dime.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I am presently 'photographically challenged', and unable to post any pictures, but I have a 1795 LM-10/V4 Flowing Hair half dime with the name "Wm. F. Cline" hand engraved in the obverse field, in front of Miss Liberty's face. The engraving is very similar to the OP's coin, with very neat but tiny letters, hand engraved in a block letter font. I know, this post is useless without pictures, but if you're wondering how small the lettering is, remember, I said that it was engraved in the obverse field of a half dime. >>



    there is a skilled photographer in Raymond, ME (at least until he "snowbirds" soon), just saying... image
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  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭
    "there is a skilled photographer in Raymond, ME (at least until he "snowbirds" soon), just saying..."

    Yes, there is. But he is too busy. He recently photographed my encased half dimes for a Gobrecht Journal article in the last issue, and is presently photographing some 1843 half dimes for me for a pending article in the February Gobrecht Journal issue.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"there is a skilled photographer in Raymond, ME (at least until he "snowbirds" soon), just saying..."

    Yes, there is. But he is too busy. He recently photographed my encased half dimes for a Gobrecht Journal article in the last issue, and is presently photographing some 1843 half dimes for me for a pending article in the February Gobrecht Journal issue. >>



    I'm sure he doesn't sleep much now, so sleeping less won't hurt him image
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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>That is unique... "cosy"
    >>



    Education back then wasn't like it is today. image >>



    it still isn't.
    Frank

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  • luckybucksluckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    Cosy is the old English way of spelling "cozy".

    Nice love token.

    How common are the Lord's Prayer tokens ?
  • EXOJUNKIEEXOJUNKIE Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like it. Nice PU!
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  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
    ALL CAP LOCKS TOO ! SUPPOSE THEY ARE YELLING AT YOU ? image
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have seen tiny engraving like that, but I can't remember where. I'll keep thunking on it.
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  • TomthecoinguyTomthecoinguy Posts: 849 ✭✭✭✭
    I have a half cent, where someone carved a name in the rim. Here is a link to the previous thread.

    http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=928442


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