altered seated!!!!

CREEKGEEK

CREEKGEEK

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My first seated and oldest silver to date!!! Any info would be appreciated.

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It's a love token. Sweet find! Congrats! Looks like it was a pin at one time.
 

Very cool find ! They aren't all that uncommon as far as being able to buy them on Ebay & places like that but it's rare to see one found in the ground. From Wikipedia... "The altering of coins dates to the 18th century or earlier. Beginning in the 1850s, the most common form of coin alteration was the "potty coin", engraved on United States Seated Liberty coinage (half dime through trade dollar). This time period was also the heyday of the love token, which was made by machine-smoothing a coin (usually silver) on one or both sides, thenengraving it with initials, monograms, names, scenes, etc., often with an ornate border. Hundreds of thousands of coins were altered in this manner. They were often mounted on pins or incorporated into bracelets and necklaces. "
 

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An amazingly cool find! Just thinking what our GF / wives would have to say if we scratched their initials on a modern quarter and gave it to them for Christmas?
 

Congrats on your first Seated and a love token to boot !!!
 

xtrmdigger said:
An amazingly cool find! Just thinking what our GF / wives would have to say if we scratched their initials on a modern quarter and gave it to them for Christmas?
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GIFT IDEA! LOL
 

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xtrmdigger said:
An amazingly cool find! Just thinking what our GF / wives would have to say if we scratched their initials on a modern quarter and gave it to them for Christmas?
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You haven't been in the dog house lately have you!:icon_scratch:
 

Nice find! Congrats!
Extrm- how fast can you run?
 

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This sort of "Love Token " was all the rage during most of the "Victorian era" through the Edwardian period (circa 1840- 1910) - A very cool find !
I honestly would much rather dig one of these , than a regular circulated seated liberty coin (key date excepted ) for the personal connection that
is apparent in the "Love Token". Yours was obviously made into a pin (brooch ) as seen in the two marks where the hinge side of the pin are
clearly evident .
 

Gorgeous find! Someone put a lot of love into that one. :)
 

awesome love token pin. that is freakin' sweet!
 

Thanks for the info/comments!! Hopefully i can go back tomorrow!!
 

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