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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 5232288, member: 10461"]Wait, wait! Never mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually... you know... looking closer at that, it appears that maybe there <i>was</i> a love token done there after all. Just a very crude one. Does anybody else see a capital "D" initial on there like I do?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rotate the reverse to the left a few degrees. See it there? I'm almost certain now that there is a hand-carved "D" on there.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=57695]@Lorenzo Pappaceno[/USER] - your grandma or someone else in your family didn't by any chance have a "D" initial in their name, did they?</p><p><br /></p><p>There you have it. It's a crude 19th century love token. I'm almost sure of that now. Though the engraving is not particularly artistic, its being a love token raises it above "plain old damaged coin" status, at least.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still not worth more than a few bucks, but a bit more interesting, anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 5232288, member: 10461"]Wait, wait! Never mind. Actually... you know... looking closer at that, it appears that maybe there [I]was[/I] a love token done there after all. Just a very crude one. Does anybody else see a capital "D" initial on there like I do? Rotate the reverse to the left a few degrees. See it there? I'm almost certain now that there is a hand-carved "D" on there. [USER=57695]@Lorenzo Pappaceno[/USER] - your grandma or someone else in your family didn't by any chance have a "D" initial in their name, did they? There you have it. It's a crude 19th century love token. I'm almost sure of that now. Though the engraving is not particularly artistic, its being a love token raises it above "plain old damaged coin" status, at least. Still not worth more than a few bucks, but a bit more interesting, anyway.[/QUOTE]
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