Post your favorite love tokens for Valentines day

gummibear

Post some of your favorite love tokens US and foreign. Here are my favorites from the England in the 1830's

This is the reverse that is on all six tokens. They are about the size of a quarter and all gilt bronze. I still have not seen another set offered anywhere.

These are the six different obverses.






Here is a list of descriptions.

Happy Valentines Day,
Richard

messydesk

Edit: Not mine.

Musky1011

SeattleSlammer

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Wowsa.

ricko

The gold bracelet is very nice.... Cheers, RickO

gummibear

Is that bracelet $1 or $2.50 gold coins. I once saw a $1 gold bracelet but they weren't love tokens.

Richard

BillJones

Here is one of the dog-gonest love tokens of all, an 1848 CAL. quarter eagle that was holed and engraved on the obverse. This probably qualifies as the worst known example of this rare and desirable coin.

Dentuck

Here are photos of a love token I picked up at the Whitman Baltimore Expo last
year. 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.

gummibear

I saw that one when you first got it and showed it. I always have liked it.
Richard

topstuf

Crudely stamped by horny teenager (me) when I first met my late wife.



It now sits in her cemetery cubicle where my box will be put when it's time.