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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 26701307, member: 10461"]<i><b>I hope y'all will find this post interesting, and not a digression from the main theme.</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Back around 2008, I avidly collected love tokens done on dimes. These are just <i>some</i> of the ones on post-1860 Legend Obverse Seated dimes. By no means all of the ones I had. This was back in my flatbed scanner imaging era, so the pics aren't the greatest.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1862</b> - "RWS" - all <i>three</i> of my initials in the proper sequence, plus a marsh scene (I live in the Marshes of Glynn in GA). I couldn't pull the BIN trigger on this one fast enough, when I saw it on eBay. Also, that morning, a stork had flown across the road in front of me on my commute. An omen, perhaps.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/rp/pz74u2imgw2u.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1863</b> - Clothing stud mount. An ugly piece, but on a better-date host coin. Definitely scarce as a love token.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/7b/7j2tt1y1hpnz.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1872</b> - "JWD" with geometric design and stork in well-executed marsh scene with flying birds in sky. I surmise all these storks on love tokens denoted baby christening gifts.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/b3/6zw07zlzq1j6.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1873 arrows</b> - Pictorial of a single masted schooner sailing left in seascape with waves and birds. Relatively simple artwork. Though I would have paid a premium for it as a pictorial, it wasn't that expensive, as I recall.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/vl/7aj3qq6dzpg3.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1875 (example #1)</b> - "Will" and two-masted schooner sailing right over textured waves. While the obverse and reverse were toned differently, the difference was not as pronounced as it is in these poor scans. (All of these were imaged in my flatbed scanner era.)</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/sb/ryfydlqo0tlk.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1875 (example #2) </b>-Victorian firefighter's hose carriage, name (undecipherable) engraved below</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/mm/vkds2ktzgt3j.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/1i/f4ia1yj5rk8o.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1876 (example #1)</b> - "Papa" in fancy script below landscape with church scene. A very nice scenic pictorial, despite some wear. I was lucky enough to pick it up quite cheaply, too. This 1876 "Papa" piece pairs nicely with the 1887 "Mama" Statue of Liberty pictorial below.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/fj/s9jcrbrkx39t.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1876 (example #2)</b>- "OVER THE GARDEN WALL / " R (G?) E. C.", (fox? cat?) leaping over stone wall in pursuit of another animal whose tail can be seen, dog chasing bird below. A great pictorial piece.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ix/z39ykd963ctx.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1876 (example #3)</b> -Victorian "penny-farthing" (high wheel) bicycle in landscape with foliage and cattail plant in foreground, bird in sky.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ep/msdfq836cezz.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1877</b> - "ELB" in inverted horseshoe, with flourishes and border. These "horseshoe" pieces were almost certainly used as "good luck" talismans.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/xj/f8b9zhrvdrwf.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1879</b> - Key date. Rare; exceedingly so as a love token. "A" and "J" in monogram with ornamental border. This not only had a high grade host coin, but is likely one of only a tiny handful of surviving love tokens on 1879 dimes. Unfortunately I never got good photos of this piece, so we'll have to rely on low-quality scans.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/be/h40t6te7dj8x.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1880 (example 1)</b> - Key date. Rare, especially as a love token. "C", "I" (or "J"), & "L" in monogram with ornamental border.</p><p>I cherrypicked this piece in a bulk lot for only $7.50! Not long before that, I had bought a different one (below) for about $125.00. I resold the $125.00 example at cost, and kept the lucky cherrypick. Apparently the owner of the source bulk lot of dime love tokens didn't think to check it for key date coins!</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ov/uveebbudz2io.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1880 (example 2)</b> - Another key date 1880 dime. This is the one I had paid $125.00 for. The one above was the one I cherrypicked for only $7.50. I kept the cherrypicked one and resold this one at cost, later.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/tq/z8ctjhbdt1mh.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1881</b> - Key date. Rare, especially as a love token. "A", "H", and "W" in monogram, with flourishes. While the key date 1879, 1880 and 1881 dimes had relatively tiny mintages and were struck only at Philadelphia, it was the "golden age" of love token engraving, which lasted from about the mid-1870s until the end of the century. As such, a fair number of these key-date coins got made into love tokens, unlike the earlier key dates from the 1840s. However, when you're talking about such a tiny mintage like the 24,000 struck in 1881, that's not a very big number to begin with. I was fortunate to add an 1881 to the collection.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/1s/c2jyxgmo9bzv.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1882</b> -"E" and "L" through "C" in small monogram, below horse's head.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/qh/picy3q5ssc84.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1883 (example 1)</b> - "PETE" on fence, with chick hatching from egg below. This was a superb pictorial, and one of my more admired pieces. Like the "stork" pictorials, this "chick and egg" theme was almost certainly engraved as a christening gift.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/i6/5p2atr4uyhs4.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1883 (example 2)</b>- "Charley" in script above ornamental diagonal band, landscape with sunrise behind a mountain lake.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/p8/vly5n9425jc5.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1884</b> - "J.J.T." above river scene with boats and the Brooklyn Bridge. A nice companion to the 1887 "Statue of Liberty" piece below. Both this and the coin below date within a year of the dedication of the New York City landmarks they portray.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/as/7kx0awmo4ntc.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1885</b> - "WJH" in banner across inverted horseshoe. Another "lucky horseshoe" piece.</p><p><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/kd/bg30o0fbujqr.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Continued in next post...</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 26701307, member: 10461"][I][B]I hope y'all will find this post interesting, and not a digression from the main theme.[/B][/I] Back around 2008, I avidly collected love tokens done on dimes. These are just [I]some[/I] of the ones on post-1860 Legend Obverse Seated dimes. By no means all of the ones I had. This was back in my flatbed scanner imaging era, so the pics aren't the greatest. [B]1862[/B] - "RWS" - all [I]three[/I] of my initials in the proper sequence, plus a marsh scene (I live in the Marshes of Glynn in GA). I couldn't pull the BIN trigger on this one fast enough, when I saw it on eBay. Also, that morning, a stork had flown across the road in front of me on my commute. An omen, perhaps. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/rp/pz74u2imgw2u.png[/IMG] [B]1863[/B] - Clothing stud mount. An ugly piece, but on a better-date host coin. Definitely scarce as a love token. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/7b/7j2tt1y1hpnz.png[/IMG] [B]1872[/B] - "JWD" with geometric design and stork in well-executed marsh scene with flying birds in sky. I surmise all these storks on love tokens denoted baby christening gifts. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/b3/6zw07zlzq1j6.png[/IMG] [B]1873 arrows[/B] - Pictorial of a single masted schooner sailing left in seascape with waves and birds. Relatively simple artwork. Though I would have paid a premium for it as a pictorial, it wasn't that expensive, as I recall. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/vl/7aj3qq6dzpg3.png[/IMG] [B]1875 (example #1)[/B] - "Will" and two-masted schooner sailing right over textured waves. While the obverse and reverse were toned differently, the difference was not as pronounced as it is in these poor scans. (All of these were imaged in my flatbed scanner era.) [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/sb/ryfydlqo0tlk.png[/IMG] [B]1875 (example #2) [/B]-Victorian firefighter's hose carriage, name (undecipherable) engraved below [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/mm/vkds2ktzgt3j.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/1i/f4ia1yj5rk8o.png[/IMG] [B]1876 (example #1)[/B] - "Papa" in fancy script below landscape with church scene. A very nice scenic pictorial, despite some wear. I was lucky enough to pick it up quite cheaply, too. This 1876 "Papa" piece pairs nicely with the 1887 "Mama" Statue of Liberty pictorial below. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/fj/s9jcrbrkx39t.png[/IMG] [B]1876 (example #2)[/B]- "OVER THE GARDEN WALL / " R (G?) E. C.", (fox? cat?) leaping over stone wall in pursuit of another animal whose tail can be seen, dog chasing bird below. A great pictorial piece. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ix/z39ykd963ctx.png[/IMG] [B]1876 (example #3)[/B] -Victorian "penny-farthing" (high wheel) bicycle in landscape with foliage and cattail plant in foreground, bird in sky. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ep/msdfq836cezz.png[/IMG] [B]1877[/B] - "ELB" in inverted horseshoe, with flourishes and border. These "horseshoe" pieces were almost certainly used as "good luck" talismans. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/xj/f8b9zhrvdrwf.png[/IMG] [B]1879[/B] - Key date. Rare; exceedingly so as a love token. "A" and "J" in monogram with ornamental border. This not only had a high grade host coin, but is likely one of only a tiny handful of surviving love tokens on 1879 dimes. Unfortunately I never got good photos of this piece, so we'll have to rely on low-quality scans. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/be/h40t6te7dj8x.png[/IMG] [B]1880 (example 1)[/B] - Key date. Rare, especially as a love token. "C", "I" (or "J"), & "L" in monogram with ornamental border. I cherrypicked this piece in a bulk lot for only $7.50! Not long before that, I had bought a different one (below) for about $125.00. I resold the $125.00 example at cost, and kept the lucky cherrypick. Apparently the owner of the source bulk lot of dime love tokens didn't think to check it for key date coins! [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/ov/uveebbudz2io.png[/IMG] [B]1880 (example 2)[/B] - Another key date 1880 dime. This is the one I had paid $125.00 for. The one above was the one I cherrypicked for only $7.50. I kept the cherrypicked one and resold this one at cost, later. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/tq/z8ctjhbdt1mh.png[/IMG] [B]1881[/B] - Key date. Rare, especially as a love token. "A", "H", and "W" in monogram, with flourishes. While the key date 1879, 1880 and 1881 dimes had relatively tiny mintages and were struck only at Philadelphia, it was the "golden age" of love token engraving, which lasted from about the mid-1870s until the end of the century. As such, a fair number of these key-date coins got made into love tokens, unlike the earlier key dates from the 1840s. However, when you're talking about such a tiny mintage like the 24,000 struck in 1881, that's not a very big number to begin with. I was fortunate to add an 1881 to the collection. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/1s/c2jyxgmo9bzv.png[/IMG] [B]1882[/B] -"E" and "L" through "C" in small monogram, below horse's head. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/qh/picy3q5ssc84.png[/IMG] [B]1883 (example 1)[/B] - "PETE" on fence, with chick hatching from egg below. This was a superb pictorial, and one of my more admired pieces. Like the "stork" pictorials, this "chick and egg" theme was almost certainly engraved as a christening gift. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/i6/5p2atr4uyhs4.png[/IMG] [B]1883 (example 2)[/B]- "Charley" in script above ornamental diagonal band, landscape with sunrise behind a mountain lake. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/p8/vly5n9425jc5.png[/IMG] [B]1884[/B] - "J.J.T." above river scene with boats and the Brooklyn Bridge. A nice companion to the 1887 "Statue of Liberty" piece below. Both this and the coin below date within a year of the dedication of the New York City landmarks they portray. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/as/7kx0awmo4ntc.png[/IMG] [B]1885[/B] - "WJH" in banner across inverted horseshoe. Another "lucky horseshoe" piece. [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/editor/kd/bg30o0fbujqr.png[/IMG] [B]Continued in next post... [/B][/QUOTE]
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