"The Greene Swan": Pictorial love token on 1892 Barber dime

"The Greene Swan": Pictorial love token on 1892 Barber dime



Host coin: 1892 USA Barber dime.
Obverse: original Barber Liberty head design, unaltered.
Reverse: swan facing left with long-stalked plant at right, "L. GREENE" below.

Ex-"coinsandcuriosities1" (eBay), 1/22/2016.

While this isn't an exceptional love token, it's definitely not bad, and it's a pictorial with reasonably competent engraving. Considering it cost me less than 22 bucks, that's not bad at all for a pictorial love token; it's closer to the price you'd expect to pay for a more generic monogrammed piece on a Seated dime. These days, it's hard to get any pictorial love token for less than 50 bucks. Furthermore, Barber dimes are slightly less common as love token hosts than Seated dimes, though within the Barber series, the first-year issues of 1892 like this one are often seen.

This was formerly part of my Engraved/Counterstamped/Oddball Type Set.

Sadly, I never got around to making better pictures of it before I sold it in the last purge.