Love Token on Ebay

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assuming the description of how it was made is accurate, i wouldn't make one for $700, less the cost of the coin itself. so, yeah, it looks like a relative bargain to me from that point of view. it's pretty well done- i wonder if these were ever common?
 
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mitch said:
assuming the description of how it was made is accurate, i wouldn't make one for $700, less the cost of the coin itself. so, yeah, it looks like a relative bargain to me from that point of view. it's pretty well done- i wonder if these were ever common?
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It's my understanding that love tokens were so common that they had to make a law concerning the mutilation of U.S. coins because it was becoming difficult for the mint to keep up with the production of dimes. This one is particularly nice and probably a bargain considering the gold overlay. BTW, that law was repealed... continue carving, piercing and engraving your coins. A recent law prohibits scrapping nickels since it costs 6 cents to produce one these days, otherwise folks could just take truckloads of them from the treasury to the scrap yards.
 
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THC, huum, not tetrahyrocanabinol, I hope!

On a more serious note, that is nice engraving, does anyone know about when it might have been done?
 
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http://http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370503196085&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_500wt_1156Here is another one with the same initials and in the same style!
http://http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayI...ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_500wt_1156
I was thinking about the first one, and my guess is the engraver was a student who did the coin as a type of graduation exercise using his initials, or a working engraver who made the coin as advertising of his work using his own initials.
It is just too much work for someone to pay for, for just a coin. I only see this type of monogram done on expensive large pocket watches from the 1880"s. Often the other side has the year engraved in in the same style and size of the monogram. After 1900 this style was not used much.
Ebay # if link does not work. #370503196085
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I have seen some of the more elaborate ones as a kind of center piece and all the other love token links might be other family members added. You see ones with stones set every now and then and I have seen ones with totally round stones,like little b.b's set in the coin.
 
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