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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3013680, member: 10461&quot;]<b>Side note, in a similar vein:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Since Victorian love tokens are often found with a single initial letter engraved on them, this theme could be pursued with older coins as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here in the US the Seated Liberty dime was the most common love token host, but you folks in the UK had some nicely engraved threepence and sixpence love tokens, and the odd shilling as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing would say you had to stick to all the same denomination of host coin.&nbsp; You could just go for one of each letter engraving, on whatever host coin you could find the right letter on.</p><p><br /></p><p>This could be a fun and relatively inexpensive pursuit, but the hunt would be challenging- and extremely so for some letters!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some dime love tokens I had.&nbsp; I was collecting them by host coin date, not engraved letter.&nbsp; But I had an &quot;X&quot;, which would be a bit harder initial to find!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]747854[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]747856[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]747858[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]747859[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]747860[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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