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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JimsOkay, post: 26192752, member: 119563&quot;]SensibleSal&#039;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&#039;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&#039;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&#039;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&#039;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>

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