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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7809284, member: 105098&quot;]I give up, just going to take a guess.</p><p>&nbsp;the writing suggests someone well trained in handwriting, specifically Victorian font. and that it was likely carved both at the same time by the same person. it&#039;s too similar for it to have been done on different occasions or by different people maybe a son or something memorializing their father, and a wife by maiden name that died young, grieving over the loss of his wife and remembering his father that died 12 years earlier while he&#039;s at it?&nbsp; I can guess, as to why this would be done, by what it is and what it appears like. </p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely it&#039;s a memorial coin, it&#039;s only 12 years difference between the deaths, 25 years of age between the two names though, and unrelated names. the most likely scenario is it&#039;s someone father, and maybe a wife (abbreviated first name to E. could be a woman for that reason, could also be a long name like </p><p>Elizabeth Nicholson and didn&#039;t even try to make it fit on there. The different last name suggests a maiden name as a possibility also which a grieving husband might do rather than memorialize his wife with his last name and choose to remember the girl he met instead.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Hard to say.&nbsp; maybe some dudes father dies when he&#039;s 18, he meets his love and marries her and is happy and at age 30 she dies, and he starts working on this memorial token, and puts both of them on it, her by maiden name and his father by his own surname to make the family connection and cope with his loss. Maybe he rushed it to smooth it down, but he certainly didn&#039;t rush the lettering that&#039;s for sure, it&#039;s a steady hand for the most part.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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