Beautiful Love Token! $20 Purchase

[coinman123]

I made this purchase last week while on vacation. I paid twenty dollars for this beautiful love token, made from an 1873 seated dime in AU condition. The cool thing about this love token is that it includes an engraved date, initials, and is wearable with the original silver clasp. I also bought a beautiful coin silver 1780's silver spoon for $10, pretty much melt value. Very nice antique shop!

 

[Tedyoh]

Very cool find....i have sort of a love / hate opinion on love tokens.....i found an 1856 gold $2.50 love token detecting....really can't call it a "gold coin"....probably as close as I'm going to get though. I still rank it as my best find.

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[Mzjavert]

That's something I can't imagine a family letting go. Makes you wonder how it ended up in an antique shop.

Nice find.

 

[coinman123]

That's something I can't imagine a family letting go. Makes you wonder how it ended up in an antique shop.

Nice find.

I was wondering the same thing, it is worth much more sentimentally to the family than twenty dollars (or $10-$15, depending on how much they got for it). Maybe in need of some quick cash, such as for food or even drugs/cigarettes/alcohol.

 

[insontis]

Love the design, and of course that it is [double] dated. Interesting that the date is three years after the coin's mintage. I wonder if using any [year] coin at the time was common practice, or why the maker didn't choose to use the current year's dime.. If only it could speak!

 

[Kurios1]

Wow! Great find there mate. I'd be dumb enough to stick it on a treasure hunting cap and loose it! Very nice piece of history.

 

[Rodbuster209]

Love the design, and of course that it is [double] dated. Interesting that the date is three years after the coin's mintage. I wonder if using any [year] coin at the time was common practice, or why the maker didn't choose to use the current year's dime.. If only it could speak!

Maybe the maker couldn't get his hands on a current one.

 

[Truth]

I love Love tokens and that one is definitely a great one. Gotta love the date being on it.


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[pepperj]

Great looking Love token, really liking the dated part. Only have found one and it's still one of the finds that I remember digging up even if was many years back.
As far as it being in an antique store? Estate sale, and being around collecting buying and selling for 50 yrs there's one thing that seperates sentimental value is the power of $$$. Some don't give a rats ass about the first part they're more interested in the $$$.
Just think on how many times one has shown something like a find or some trinket to someone, the first thing that comes out of the mouth is how much is it worth?

 

[coinman123]

Just think on how many times one has shown something like a find or some trinket to someone, the first thing that comes out of the mouth is how much is it worth?

It seems like every time I show anyone a find I get that question, and to be honest, I have no idea how much my items are worth . Some people really want to know and when I say, "I don't know, I never really checked/they are worth more as history to me/they are too corroded to be worth much" They respond with, "Are you sure you don't know the ballpark of how much these items are worth, you could probably get a lot of money for some of them!" I even get people telling me what to do with them sometimes, such as the following quote, which actually as been said maybe even a few times to me, "You could probably clean them up in lemon juice or some acid to make them shiny, then sell them in an auction or antique shop for a lot of money!" It seems that money is always the most important thing to people, and a number can mean more than anything else.