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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2774684, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>&quot;Penny-farthing Pedal Pusher&quot;: pictorial love token on 1876 Seated Liberty dime</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1876-10c-009000-coin-png.6604/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1876-10c-009000-obv-jpg.6605/full" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1876-10c-009000-obv-jpg.6605/full">Larger obverse picture</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1876-10c-009000-rev-jpg.6606/full" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/lt-1876-10c-009000-rev-jpg.6606/full">Larger reverse picture</a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Host coin:</b> 1876 USA Seated Liberty dime.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse: </b>original Seated Liberty design, unaltered. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse: </b>Victorian &quot;penny-farthing&quot; (high wheel) bicycle in landscape with foliage and cattail plant in foreground, bird in sky. </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex- &quot;whitewolfcoins&quot;, eBay, 06/21/2017.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This is a wonderful high-Victorian love token charm, anonymous since it was carved without any engraved initials, simply for the sake of art alone. It likely served as a charm on a lady&#039;s bracelet or gentleman&#039;s watch fob. The engraving is excellent and the whimsical subject matter evokes the era perfectly. Furthermore, the engraving is likely closely contemporary to the host coin, since the penny-farthing, high-wheel bicycle went out of fashion in the 1880s with the development of the safety bicycle, which more closely resembles the kind we are familiar with today.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny-farthing" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia article: Penny-farthing</a></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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