Trying to identify this for a friend

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Is it a copper coin which has been smoothed and engraved? If so, it's a "love token"— and an uncommonly nice example.
 

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most likely was a coin like this at one time.
 

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Looks to me as if someone used a large cent and made something similar to a Hobo Nickel.

The Buffalo Nickel was commonly used as a medium and was carved with different characters and traded for food and lodging during the depression era. Hence the term "Hobo Nickel".

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She says it is almost exactly quarter size, appears to be copper or bronze and has a "penny feel" to it....
 

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PBK said:
Is it a copper coin which has been smoothed and engraved? If so, it's a "love token"— and an uncommonly nice example.

Agreed Love token, I guess by the decor 1890s??
 

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If it's very slightly smaller than a quarter, it may have been made from a half cent or 2¢ piece; if it's a little larger, then either a token or foreign coin.
 

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