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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3237793, member: 10461&quot;]I concur.&nbsp; The word &quot;born&quot; is not so certain - it&#039;s possible, but hard to say.&nbsp; I could imagine I see &quot;July&quot; there, instead, but again ... hard to say.&nbsp; Either way, I do think it&#039;s almost certainly a birth/christening token.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those old 18th century love tokens are great.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a true love token (it says as much: <i>&quot;Love Me True As I Do You&quot; / 1780 </i>) on an 18th century copper, but since both sides were engraved, it&#039;s impossible to say for sure what the host coin was.&nbsp; As I recall, it was a bit smaller than halfpenny size, so maybe a farthing.&nbsp; I never weighed it.&nbsp; I like the surname &quot;Lavender&quot;.&nbsp; Have known of only one living person with that last name.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if &quot;T. Horton&quot; (probably the man) married &quot;A. Lavender&quot; (probably the lady), and if their descendants walk the earth today.&nbsp; I&#039;m imaging his name to have been <i>Thomas</i> Horton, and hers <i>Anne</i> Lavender, though that&#039;s obviously a just a wild guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who knows, maybe T. Horton was actually named <i>Tim</i>, lived an unnaturally long time, emigrated to Canada, and founded a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons" rel="nofollow">fast-food chain</a>.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Horton-Lavender-love-token-1780.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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