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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3644716, member: 10461&quot;]Back to the &quot;hatching chick&quot; motif again, for a moment. It is not an uncommon theme on 19th century christening tokens, though I&#039;ve seen more with a &quot;stork&quot; motif.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one on an 1883 dime I used to have. The engraving here is top-notch. Wish I still had this piece.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/jo/5gtvzesbs4la.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the more typical &quot;stork&quot;. I no longer have this piece, either.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/7d/qlledjenmc0m.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is another, with more folksy and less professional engraving, but special, because it has all three of my initials, in the proper sequence! That&#039;s a pretty rare coincidence!</p><p><br /></p><p>It features a stork in a marsh scene. My daily commute takes me through Georgia&#039;s Marshes of Glynn, and on the morning I bought that coin, a stork flew across the road in front of my car. When I later sold that collection of love tokens, I held that piece back, and gave it to my mother. She has a charm bracelet of love tokens with her children and grandchildren&#039;s names on the coins. So this one, while no longer in my personal collection, is still in the family.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/sl/cjcxf3eo6m2q.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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