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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2585299, member: 10461&quot;]<b><font face="Georgia">&quot;The Two Leroys&quot;: Friendship token on 1922 Peace dollar</font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FLeroyLeroy1922Peace.png&amp;hash=8be74934689ae1931df2eb839a3ccffc" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Host coin: </b>1922 USA Peace dollar.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obverse: </b>original design, unaltered except for tiny engraved script reading, <i>&quot;Token of Friendship / From Leroy to Leroy&quot;.</i></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Reverse: </b>original eagle design, unaltered.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Sorry for the quickie cellphone shots on this one.&nbsp; The bezel is modern and a recent addition by me.&nbsp; It can be removed without affecting the coin if the next owner doesn&#039;t want it.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">I thought this piece was fun.&nbsp; The script is reasonably well done, obviously by hand, and engraved deeply enough to have survived the time this spent as one Leroy&#039;s pocket piece.&nbsp; The lettering is quite small.&nbsp; Who were Leroy and Leroy?&nbsp; My pet theory is that this is a World War II-era &quot;buddies&quot; friendship token (those are often seen on Peace dollar host coins), but there&#039;s no way to really know for sure.&nbsp; (Alternately, it&#039;s amusing to imagine an absurd scenario where <i>one</i> person named Leroy was so self-absorbed that he created a love token coin for <i>himself</i>.&nbsp; Haha.)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This was formerly 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>.&nbsp; When posted here, it was part of my swapstock inventory.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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