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The new "Coolest Coin in my Collection"

LRCTomLRCTom Posts: 857 ✭✭✭

Nearly everything I buy is for resale, but every now and then something appears that I just have to have, for keeps. That was the case for this Seated Dollar love token, something I've never seen before. I'm assuming it was made to commemorate the marriage of Miss Randall to Mr. Sibley, back in 1900 or so.

Pretty neat, eh?

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 5, 2017 7:42AM

    Pretty neat "damage/graffiti/tooling/etc..."

    Randall to Sibley = Marriage? Vey likely.

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way cool! Build your house on a rock.................neat.

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  • CascadeChrisCascadeChris Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Way neat. Now, try to find genealogy records, marriage cert etc to go with it.

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  • CyndieChildressCyndieChildress Posts: 429 ✭✭✭

    Never seen a coin like that, thanks for sharing.!.!.! :)

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's pretty much a "10" on my 1 to 10 scale. I'd sure keep it also.
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  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭

    That is more detail than I usually see. Awesome!

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,760 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Saaaaaaaaaaaweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭✭✭

    B)

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That is a super love token.... very well done and certainly unique. Congratulations on that find.... I would have purchased that one. Cheers, RickO

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,304 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice pick up, i like

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,183 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it! Very cool!

  • CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭

    Wish the date it was originally given was known.

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  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Absolutely a keeper!

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    YEAH :)

    NEATO !!

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,291 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice!

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  • CascadeChrisCascadeChris Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinsponge said:
    Wish the date it was originally given was known.

    If it was a wedding love token chances are very high that it was made and given to the couple in 1872

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,292 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 5, 2017 8:35PM

    WAY COOL !! B)

    I also like it, b/c there's a lot of meat left on the bone!!

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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭

    Cool coin

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 5, 2017 11:58PM

    If it was a wedding love token chances are very high that it was made and given to the couple in 1872

    I would agree. OP estimated 1900 but I don't see where that comes in. I expect the event was in the date on the coin. (Also, names could be first names?)

    And a great coin, btw.....

  • kazkaz Posts: 9,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's a remarkable piece!

  • LRCTomLRCTom Posts: 857 ✭✭✭

    The coin had circulated a while before it was made into a love token. This is why I guessed 1900 or so when the gift was given.

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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool! I like it. Definitely a keeper.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,532 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LRCTom said:
    The coin had circulated a while before it was made into a love token. This is why I guessed 1900 or so when the gift was given.

    Fair enough - I did not pay close enough attention to the wear. Maybe an anniversary piece, with the date on the coin being the wedding date?

  • CascadeChrisCascadeChris Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LRCTom said:
    The coin had circulated a while before it was made into a love token. This is why I guessed 1900 or so when the gift was given.

    Whose to say it wasn't used as a pocket piece by one of them so that doesn't say much. However, it is also possible that it was made later as an anniversary gift and the wedding was in 1872. Everything is only speculation though.

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  • spacehaydukespacehayduke Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice and interesting coin!

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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,490 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • ElmhurstElmhurst Posts: 784 ✭✭✭

    Nice...I'd say it's worth at least the price as it would be without the "mods"

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