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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2772015, member: 85693&quot;]Thank you so much - everyone - for the enthusiastic replies. </p><p><br /></p><p>lordmarcovan, I haven&#039;t tired of it yet, but I will let you know when that happens.&nbsp; I really enjoyed going through your love token posts&nbsp; - that is quite a collection.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always found &quot;altered&quot; coins to be quite interesting myself and whenever one comes my way, cheap, I generally go for it.&nbsp; I have quite a few brooches, ex-brooches, holed, etc.&nbsp; but few actual outright love tokens.&nbsp; Here is a weird one I&#039;ve had for years - as a love token, it makes no sense to me - on the reverse of a very smoothed 1807 Spanish Colonial 8 reales (Mexico, I presume):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]639441[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for ancient love tokens, I&#039;ve never seen one either - though there is a really interesting forvum moonmoth site on holed ancients (you&#039;ve all probably seen this):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/holed_coins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/holed_coins.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/holed_coins.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot of holed coins in my collection, but not many ancients.&nbsp; Holing an ancient in modern times (even 1800) strikes me as being tricky what with the metal sometimes becoming brittle, crystalizing, etc.&nbsp; It seems to me they&#039;d probably break more often than not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, thank you all for such enthusiastic responses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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