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3 damaged small gold coins $125 delivered. <<sold>>

#1 – I am not sure what the tiny 1884 holed/worn-through charm coin is. I showed it to fractional gold specialist Russel Augustin at the FUN show in January, who said he thought it was a genuine gold California souvenir token (not a fractional coin). All I'm sure of is that despite its tiny size, it has enough "palm feel" weight to make me believe it is gold. Did I mention that it's tiny?

#2 – An 1853 Type 1 Liberty Head $1 gold piece with a lump of something that is rather crudely attached. It's not a bracket, but a lump. Maybe it's a bracket that was snipped off? The are also 4 deep, mostly vertical, parallel, arc-shaped scratches that start at Liberty's eye/nose and extend out toward the star at 10 o'clock. They don't show up well in the photo; sorry.

#3 – An 1854 small head Indian Princess $1 gold with loop attached. Looks cleaned to me. Plus, the denomination numeral 1 on the reverse has a tooled or stamped circle around it.

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sweet !!! :-)
    Timbuk3
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,628 ✭✭✭✭✭
    #2 It's not a bracket, but a lump. Maybe it's a bracket that was snipped off?

    Yes, that's some kind of solder where an old pinback attachment of some kind used to be.

    #3 Plus, the denomination numeral 1 on the reverse has a tooled or stamped circle around it.

    If you invert it, that looks like the letter "C". Note the serif. As such, it appears you have a love token, so the fact that it's cleaned and has a loop attached shouldn't detract much from it, as love tokens go.

    Neat stuff.

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