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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3644714, member: 10461&quot;]So it looks like I&#039;ll be doing another side collection of love tokens again. I keep building these, then selling them off to feed my primary &quot;Eclectic Box&quot; collection... but then I find myself drawn again to the quirky folk art or interesting provenance on some love token. I still browse that eBay category pretty regularly.&nbsp; I guess they&#039;ve kind of gotten in my blood- and stayed there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw this one for sale a couple of years ago but didn&#039;t have the money. Lo and behold, it reappeared on eBay again recently, and I bid around spot price, and won. I&#039;m happy, because pictorial love tokens on gold host coins are rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>The artistry on this one is not sublime, but it has a folksy charm to it. Given the &quot;hatching chick&quot; motif, it was almost certainly a christening token, and I would wager that &quot;E. F. D.&quot;, whoever he or she was, was likely born in 1868. We&#039;ll never know, of course, but these pieces always present some fun little mysteries like that. And sometimes the mysteries can be <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vesta-mccurrys-ww1-love-token-coin-is-going-home.329215/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vesta-mccurrys-ww1-love-token-coin-is-going-home.329215/">solved</a>, and the coin gives up its fascinating backstory.</p><p><br /></p><p>That won&#039;t happen here, with just a set of initials to go on, but it&#039;s a pictorial carving on a mid-19th century gold coin, which in itself makes it worth having.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ur/lp5islsdkov4.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ur/lp5islsdkov4.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ur/lp5islsdkov4.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ev/7ir90waaq9ls.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ev/7ir90waaq9ls.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ev/7ir90waaq9ls.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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