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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25446856, member: 10461&quot;]<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/">I originally posted the story of this piece in 2018.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But since the original narrative was posted live, as the facts were being discovered, it’s a bit scattered.&nbsp; Since the coin came up again in a recent conversation on another site, I thought I’d dust off some of these pics and repost it here, in a shorter and easier-to-read summary, for those who didn’t see the original post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a French 2-franc piece from 1918.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8868.png.2a9079c20e279919e54ad0c75d5fc23f.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8868.png.2a9079c20e279919e54ad0c75d5fc23f.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8868.png.2a9079c20e279919e54ad0c75d5fc23f.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was made into a World War I “trench art” love token in France, acquired by Howard G. Pearman, a sergeant with Company F of the US 21st Infantry, 3rd Division, and engraved for his sweetheart back home, Miss Vesta McCurry of Hartwell, Georgia.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8869.png.ab6647c47687cbe3c2572386ed80ddd2.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8869.png.ab6647c47687cbe3c2572386ed80ddd2.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8869.png.ab6647c47687cbe3c2572386ed80ddd2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Vesta, circa 1918. Howard returned home safely and they married on Christmas Day of 1919.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8870.png.4f0cc2b0d386ce7e5055e3e190b43906.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8870.png.4f0cc2b0d386ce7e5055e3e190b43906.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8870.png.4f0cc2b0d386ce7e5055e3e190b43906.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are Howard and Vesta, later in life. He died in 1958. She lived until 1973.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8871.png.552a501967e7214a381d9a83a4c3cf2d.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8871.png.552a501967e7214a381d9a83a4c3cf2d.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8871.png.552a501967e7214a381d9a83a4c3cf2d.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Howard and Vesta’s granddaughter Nancy, to whom I returned the coin in 2019, a century after her grandparents’ wedding.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8872.png.8c0438d0cf17156f28100d823c06df01.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8872.png.8c0438d0cf17156f28100d823c06df01.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2024_06/IMG_8872.png.8c0438d0cf17156f28100d823c06df01.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>It was really exciting to research that piece, track down its history, and send it home to the family. It’s rare to own an old coin and discover so much about the actual everyday <i>people</i> in its history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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