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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7809454, member: 10461&quot;]See, this is what is so cool about love tokens with full names engraved on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many times have you held an old coin from your collection and thought, “<i>Man, I wish I knew where this coin has been, and who once owned it?</i>”</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, with certain love tokens, those answers can be found!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Through such pieces, I have met ...</b></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pill-poppin-sam-before-the-big-binge-1773-love-token-on-british-king-george-iii-halfpenny.287430/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/pill-poppin-sam-before-the-big-binge-1773-love-token-on-british-king-george-iii-halfpenny.287430/"><b>Sam Jessop</b></a>, the once-infamous “Pill Devourer” of Georgian England...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/grand-pretensions-w-h-vanderbilt-carved-on-1826-capped-bust-half-dollar.287428/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/grand-pretensions-w-h-vanderbilt-carved-on-1826-capped-bust-half-dollar.287428/"><b>W.H. Vanderbilt</b></a> - the <i>famous</i> one?&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; We’ll never know...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/died-on-the-train-1878-mourning-token-engraved-on-1858-seated-liberty-half.298118/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/died-on-the-train-1878-mourning-token-engraved-on-1858-seated-liberty-half.298118/"><b>L. Frank Gray</b></a> - who died aboard a train in 1878...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/relic-of-a-short-life-jasper-dilday-love-token-on-ca-1867-1869-shield-nickel.287391/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/relic-of-a-short-life-jasper-dilday-love-token-on-ca-1867-1869-shield-nickel.287391/"><b>Jasper B. Dilday</b></a> - who died young in 1879...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1341379[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-quarrelsome-dr-prince-dr-will-j-prince-engraving-on-1883-liberty-nickel.287392/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-quarrelsome-dr-prince-dr-will-j-prince-engraving-on-1883-liberty-nickel.287392/"><b>Dr. Will J. Prince</b></a> - who got into a fistfight with a city councilman in Piqua, Ohio in 1904 and seemingly prevailed...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-sailmakers-badge-ww1-royal-flying-corps-identity-disc-made-from-1916-british-half-crown.287381/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-sailmakers-badge-ww1-royal-flying-corps-identity-disc-made-from-1916-british-half-crown.287381/"><b>2nd Air Mechanic Arthur Perry</b></a> of the British Royal Flying Corps in WW1 - a sailmaker who would have repaired the fabric aircraft of the time...</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/">Private Harold Clinton Shaver</a> </b>of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, who was killed in a German air raid on a hospital in France in 1918 (the coin was to eventually end up in the Canadian War Museum, I was told)... *<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/page-3#post-7815776" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/berthas-boy-ww1-love-token-on-1916-french-franc-from-a-fallen-canadian-soldier-to-his-mother.286034/page-3#post-7815776">update: it has!</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1341388[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vesta-mccurrys-ww1-love-token-coin-is-going-home.329215/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vesta-mccurrys-ww1-love-token-coin-is-going-home.329215/"><b>Miss Vesta McCurry</b></a>, her later husband <b>Howard G. Pearman</b> (another WW1 serviceman), and their present-day granddaughter, <b>Nancy Ferazzuolo, </b>who now has her grandmother’s coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1341389[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1341390[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1341394[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That last story was <i>epic</i>, and like this one, it played out gradually, right here live on CoinTalk!&nbsp; Had a happy ending, too, unlike some of the others.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So you see why I love these “damaged” coins?&nbsp; Do you think they’d have revealed their secrets otherwise?&nbsp; Probably not!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/index-of-lord-marcovan-articles-about-love-tokens-and-engraved-coins.384360/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/index-of-lord-marcovan-articles-about-love-tokens-and-engraved-coins.384360/">Here’s my index of other love token articles.</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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