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<p>[QUOTE="JimsOkay, post: 26192752, member: 119563"]SensibleSal's reasons are good.</p><p>I have several but these are a few:</p><p>1) To wear around the neck</p><p>2) Concealed coins on string in someone's jacket.</p><p>3) Ancient boredom.</p><p><br /></p><p>To those three I would add;</p><p>4) Button replacement, usually two holes, but also three and four hole with Large and half cents.</p><p>5) I've also heard use as a washer though I have never seen any cents that show that kind of use</p><p>6) Jewelry, as you have to remember that for the common person actual jewelry wasn't available, but a coin had actual worth and was on hand for most everyone. Whether a simple hole and a string was enough or an engraved Love Token would fill in fine for a piece of jewelry.</p><p>One of my favorite Large cents is holed with an inscription that looks about as crude as one could get yet I can feel how much love the young couple must have shared.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sal's Ancient boredom reason has always been a good guess for me. Zero entertainment to be had so you had to amuse yourself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JimsOkay, post: 26192752, member: 119563"]SensibleSal's reasons are good. I have several but these are a few: 1) To wear around the neck 2) Concealed coins on string in someone's jacket. 3) Ancient boredom. To those three I would add; 4) Button replacement, usually two holes, but also three and four hole with Large and half cents. 5) I've also heard use as a washer though I have never seen any cents that show that kind of use 6) Jewelry, as you have to remember that for the common person actual jewelry wasn't available, but a coin had actual worth and was on hand for most everyone. Whether a simple hole and a string was enough or an engraved Love Token would fill in fine for a piece of jewelry. One of my favorite Large cents is holed with an inscription that looks about as crude as one could get yet I can feel how much love the young couple must have shared. Sal's Ancient boredom reason has always been a good guess for me. Zero entertainment to be had so you had to amuse yourself.[/QUOTE]
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