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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2751198, member: 10461&quot;]With only a hundred bucks, I&#039;d buy the coolest love tokens or hobo carvings I could find, and know that I had bought something truly unique that nobody else has.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything here cost under $100 per coin. Much of it less than $50, in fact.</p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/SpinyLighthouseSeascape-USA2c1864-005193-coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://rs88.pbsrc.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-3cS-1851-rooster-05950-coin.png?w=480&amp;h=480&amp;fit=clip" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT37-1873b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://rs88.pbsrc.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/GardenWallLT-006595-coin.png?w=480&amp;h=480&amp;fit=clip" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hello? KEY DATE Seated dime for seven and a half bucks, anyone?&nbsp; Somebody wasn&#039;t paying attention because the engraving scared &#039;em off!&nbsp; I later sold it for over a hundred bucks ($150-ish, as I recall).</p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT44c-1880.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT47d-1883.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT50b-1886b-edit.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT51b-1887.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is the only modern hobo carving in this post.&nbsp; The <i>good</i> modern carvings are much more expensive because competition on pieces done by top artists is so fierce and bidding wars develop.&nbsp; So I mostly stick with the older stuff, which interests me more anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://rs88.pbsrc.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-hobo-1900-10c-TheHelmsman-06761-coin.png?w=480&amp;h=480&amp;fit=clip" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes the pieces themselves aren&#039;t that visually striking, so much as the backstories that can be discovered.&nbsp; Try doing that with your regular, mainstream collector coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Can you name the past owner of your coin, or see a picture of him?&nbsp; Maybe if you buy a million-dollar rarity.&nbsp; But love tokens give you that chance on a working-class budget.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/JasperDilday-LT-Shield-5c-005965-coin.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/JasperDilday-LT-Shield-5c-005965-coin.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/JasperDilday-LT-Shield-5c-005965-coin.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/JasperDilday-photo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/WJPrinceLT-007665-coin.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/WJPrinceLT-007665-coin.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/WJPrinceLT-007665-coin.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/WJPrinceArticle1-May27-1904.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I initially thought this Seated half was a birth token (christening gift).&nbsp; Many love tokens were.&nbsp; Turns out it was a <i>mourning</i> token.&nbsp; L. Frank Gray died while aboard a moving train, much to the dismay of his family (and fellow passengers, no doubt).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1858-50c-LFrankGray-07676-coin.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1858-50c-LFrankGray-07676-coin.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/1858-50c-LFrankGray-07676-coin.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LFrankGreyObituarySyracuseSundayTimes-v2.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LFrankGreyObituarySyracuseSundayTimes-v2.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LFrankGreyObituarySyracuseSundayTimes-v2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LFrankGreyGravestone.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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