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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 1889606, member: 27832"]I was eyeing this auction on eBay, but decided that if someone with a history selling coins and gold jewelry listed an item as "gold-colored", it was a red flag. Coupled with no returns, I couldn't justify taking a gamble, and it looks like others were skeptical as well. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Coin-Lot-Seated-Liberty-Half-Dollar-Silver-Quarters-Large-Cents-/331160474458?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=5EJDMW%252FQUCyiD52Yvy%252FuKXpXph8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Coin-Lot-Seated-Liberty-Half-Dollar-Silver-Quarters-Large-Cents-/331160474458?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=5EJDMW%252FQUCyiD52Yvy%252FuKXpXph8%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc" rel="nofollow">Vintage Coin Lot: Seated Liberty Half Dollar, Silver Quarters, Large Cents +</a> Small, fuzzy pictures show what looks like a gold sovereign with love-token carving on the reverse and a pin soldered to the obverse -- but it appears to be almost the diameter of a half dollar! If this were an actual gold coin that had been turned into a love token, what would it be? Sovereigns are smaller in diameter than quarters, I think, and I couldn't find any reference to double or larger sovereigns with the "widowed Victoria" bust. So, any ideas?[/QUOTE]