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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2779188, member: 10461"]1890"SPL" (or SPI?) monogram on high grade host coin.  Ex-"oscarsaab" (eBay). Total mintages: 11,334,027.<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT54-1890.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 1891"CEB" script initials, with flourishes above and below.  Ex-"mrcrest" (eBay). Total mintages: 23,046,116.<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT55-1891.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Barber Dime Love TokensBy the turn of the century there were more branch mints producing dimes, but fewer got made into love tokens. By this period the fashion was probably starting to taper off a bit from its late-Victorian era peak. It did continue well into the early 20th century, however. A large number of the new, first-year 1892 Barber dimes (and quarters) got made into love tokens and saved, so high-grade host coin details are not uncommon. When Seated dime love tokens were my exclusive focus, I had reluctantly passed up some lovely pictorials (like seascapes) because they were on Barber dimes.   I later regretted not picking them up.  While Barber dime love tokens are obtainable, they're certainly nowhere near as commonly seen as their Seated counterparts from the "golden age" of the 1870s and 1880s. Since I rather belatedly decided to add the Barber dimes late in the pursuit of this collection, I did not get very far with them. 1892"DF" in fancy script.  Ex-eBay. Total mintages: 16,952,410.<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT56b-1892.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 1894"E", "F", and "M" in geometric style monogram with ornamental border. Ex-eBay. Total mintages: 2,050,000.<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT58-1894-edit.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> 1899"A", "C", and "P" in monogram with ornamental border.   Ex-eBay. Total mintages: 24,097,493.<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Love%20Token%20Set/LT63b-1899.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> (Somewhere I had a 1904 Barber dime love token, too, but have lost the pictures.) Thanks for looking at this old collection! It took a while to transfer it all over from the old Collectors Universe thread, but this was a really fun collection, so it was worth it to me to archive it here even though I sold the coins a few years ago. I subsequently went on to collect many other love tokens; not just dimes.  Some of those had really fascinating backstories.  Do please check out some of those stories.  (As of June, 2017, I have put an index link in my signature line here on CoinTalk to lead to all of my "better" content.)[/QUOTE]

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