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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2779227, member: 10461"]"Marshside Stork" (love token on 1861 USA Seated dime)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/RWS%20Marshside%20Stork-004900-coin.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Host coin: 1861 USA Seated dime, holed. Obverse: Seated Liberty, unaltered, with metallic stain from the old chain or loop it must have once been attached to. Reverse: Stork in marsh scene, surrounded by garlanded border, "R.W.S." initials below.Ex-eBay, October, 2011. At the time I bought this, I was collecting love token Seated dimes by date. I spotted this pictorial 1861 with a marsh scene and a stork on it. It isn't exceptional engraving, but pretty darn nice. Typically I'd spend up to fifty bucks on a really nice pictorial, and this one had a Buy-It-Now price of $49.50. That's a tiny bit pricey, but not out of the question for a piece like this. I had some eBay Bucks saved up so I used them to buy it. If we want to be nitpicky, the obverse could be a little better on this piece, but really it's all about the engraving. And this is better than most (despite my rather poor scans seen above). But here's the clincher... this piece has MY initials on it. Not just one initial... not first and last initials... but all THREE of my initials, in sequence!  Love token specialists will tell you how rare an occurrence it is to find  all of your initials in the proper sequence like that.  I'm no mathematician, but they're rather long odds.  It is a bit more common to find three initials in a tangled monogram of some kind. Also, I live in coastal Georgia's Marshes of Glynn, where scenes like this are common. Coincidentally, a stork flew right in front of my car the day I bought this! So you see why I had to buy it. Call it destiny. I used to own <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1872-seated-dime-love-token-w-stork.6660/full?d=1498419165" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/media/1872-seated-dime-love-token-w-stork.6660/full?d=1498419165">a different dime with a stork on it</a>, but this one is special. I think the stork motif was used because these love tokens were used for christening gifts in the Victorian era. This was part of <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779296" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/#post-2779296">my first love token collection</a>.  When I sold that, I gave this piece to my mother, along with some other pieces that had her name and names or initials of her grandchildren on them.  But now I want it back, since I'm starting a third love token collection!  I guess I'll just have to find another "RWS".  What are the odds?  Hmm...[/QUOTE]

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