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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2583818, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><b>&quot;Ten Cents for the Tinsmith&quot;:&nbsp; Trade-related folk art carving on 1853 Seated Liberty dime</b></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1853-10c-tools-03560-coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1853-10c-tools-03560-obv.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1853-10c-tools-03560-obv.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger obverse picture</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1853-10c-tools-03560-rev.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/LT-1853-10c-tools-03560-rev.jpg" rel="nofollow">Larger reverse picture</a></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Host coin: </b>1853 USA Seated Liberty dime, arrows at date.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse:</b> original Seated Liberty design, unaltered, with traces of solder from an old mount. <b>Reverse:</b> 19th century tradesman&#039;s tools, probably for tinsmithing. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Ex- &quot;lotsofmotts&quot; (eBay), 7/18/2016.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Many thanks to the early respondents to this thread on Collectors Universe, who helped me identify these tools. I recognized the hammer at the bottom, of course, and the tin snips on the right. That appears to be a set of dividers on the left. That basket-like cylinder in the middle with the tray underneath it and the tool sticking into it is apparently a charcoal burner, which a tinsmith would swing around in the air when he needed to heat up the coals inside.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This interesting piece was rather modestly priced for a pictorial love token, and I suspect I only got to it because it was listed only in the eBay Seated dimes category. Had the seller also listed it under the love token category, somebody else would have probably snapped it up first. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Below: Illustration of tinsmithing tools and workshop from Diderot&#039;s <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die" rel="nofollow">Encyclopédie</a></i>, ca. 1751-1772</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diderot.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsmith" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsmith" rel="nofollow">Tinsmith</a> (Wikipedia article)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This used to be part of my <a href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&amp;threadid=953536&amp;enterthread=y" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.aspx?catid=26&amp;threadid=953536&amp;enterthread=y" rel="nofollow">Engraved/Counterstamped/Oddball Type Set</a>, my second exonumia collection involving engraved pieces like love tokens and such.&nbsp; I never settled on a title for the collection, but usually referred to it as my &quot;Oddball&quot; set.&nbsp; I sold this coin and much of the set in a late-2016 purge, but am not done collecting love tokens yet.&nbsp; I have enjoyed building two collections of them and actually joined the Love Token Society, which is the first time I&#039;ve joined a specialist numismatic organization.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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