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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4838913, member: 10461&quot;]Neat!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one that&#039;s not ancient, but old.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-old-seated-barber-dime-love-token-date-set.298730/">collecting</a> love token engraved US Seated dimes by date, I came across this 1861 on eBay.&nbsp; Not only was it a pictorial, but it also had all <i>three</i> of my initials on it, <i>in the proper sequence</i>!&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t hit the BIN trigger fast enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stork indicates this was likely a 19th century christening gift for a baby with those initials.&nbsp; I like the marsh scene and the wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p>The morning I bought it, I was driving across the Torras Causeway on my daily commute through the <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Torras_causeway%2C_Glynn_County%2C_Georgia%2C_USA.jpg/1920px-Torras_causeway%2C_Glynn_County%2C_Georgia%2C_USA.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Torras_causeway%2C_Glynn_County%2C_Georgia%2C_USA.jpg/1920px-Torras_causeway%2C_Glynn_County%2C_Georgia%2C_USA.jpg" rel="nofollow">Marshes of Glynn</a>, and a stork flew right across the road in front of me!&nbsp; Then a few hours later I came across the coin and bought it.&nbsp; Weird coincidence.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FLove%2520Token%2520Set%2FLT25b-1861-edit.jpg&amp;hash=0b9e1ea447e10d82286c578b41752e70" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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