It's a pretty Merc. Say, you look a tiny bit like Stephen King (at least from the eyes up), in your new avatar.
Thanks for confirming that.
It’s possible. Later Victorian cemeteries (at least here in the cooler regions of the US, and parts of Europe) often had receiving vaults to...
August, 2021 update: sorry for the crazy-long-belated reply, as I just wandered back here to revisit this. It seems they must have spiked my...
See, this is what is so cool about love tokens with full names engraved on them. How many times have you held an old coin from your collection...
Well done! You confirmed my hunch that he was British (which wasn’t all that hard to come up with). I struck out on findagrave.com.
Yes, it’s too light to be a 1/2 speciedaler. The 1/3 speciedaler does seem to be a more likely candidate.
For what it’s worth, I do think the entire engraving present was done at the same time, likely not long after January of 1831 when E. Nicholson...
Their European submission center is in Paris, if you choose to go that route.
It almost seems as though room was deliberately left at the bottom for another row to be potentially added in the future, doesn’t it? And that...
I think it’s a basilisk (Basel- basilisk), but yeah, they rendered it in a very dragonesque manner. It’s a mythical beastie that underwent much...
Often turns out to be the case. Such was the Victorian (or in this case, somewhat earlier) culture of the time.
That right there is the burning question. One begins to see why I love tokens so much, eh? They can be really fascinating.
Another neat love token. I have an interesting one on a Canadian token as well, which can be traced to a specific individual, as I recall. I...
You may be getting warm in the host coin type. However, there is no “born” there. “Ob’t” - obit - means died. Same Latin word we get “obituary”...
That seems the most likely scenario to me. A memorial token. Since the two deaths are so far apart in time, family remembrance seems most likely...
Looks like somebody already did, though I don’t see any moderator actions logged. Did you figure it out yourself?
Christian VII was King of Denmark-Norway from 1766-1808, so there’s the date range on your host coin. I haven’t tried to look up the type yet....
Exactly. The notion of cleaning or polishing being a detracting factor goes out the window with love tokens. It’s the norm. So a piece having...
John Topliff Died 9th December 1819, aged 55 E. Nicholson Died 20th January 1831, aged 30 Host coin appears to be Danish, though the deceased...
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