Love Token

[diggervance]

Found this love token Tuesday night. I have never heard of love tokens until this week. The strange thing about this one is the word ABUSED on the back. Sent it out to three experts and they have never seen that word on a love token. The coin is a Victoria Young Head sixpence of Great Britain minted 1838-1887. Very interesting and cool find for sure.

 

[ironsight]

First i heard of anything like that also.
Someone went to a lot of motivating effort to smooth off the 'tales' side and imprint that text.
Cool find non-the-less.

 

[diggervance]

Check out ebay punch in coin love tokens, Crazy the amount of work put into these. The experts said this could bring 25.00 to 30.00 because of it being marked Abused

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

WOW, that is one cool find.

A love token is near the top of the list of things I want to find.

 

[utmike]

Cool and unusual find! Congratulations.

 

[NebTrac]

I guess in Love as in Life...one often feels abused. Poor guy....girl....! Awesome find! Thanks for the pictures. That's certainly one for the books.

NebTrac

 

[surfchunker]

it's a cool find but I would not call it a Love Token but counterstamped. LT's have the intinals of the carvers love interest carved into it

 

[ironsight]

There's something odd about that coin.
It looks from the pic that someone tried to pound a nail or the like through it and didn't succeed.
In the 2nd pic, what looks like a dimple can be clearly seen in the 11:00 o'clock position.

2ndly, the text is all upper case with the 'A' larger than the rest.

3rdly, the text appears perfect as though stamped in.

4thly, the rim is clearly visible with the background smoothed out for the text. Not impossible to do with say a metal lathe but difficult. But it looks like the smoothed out portion is raised above or equal to the rim though that could be deceiving from the pic.

5thly, if this was supposed to be worn on a chain and that dimple was an attempt for the chain hole, why wasn't it drilled through?
Someone who had the expertise to smooth out the side of the coin and imprint that text would surely be able to drill a hole through that coin. And why wouldn't the hole be right at the top of the text instead of the 11:00 o'clock position.

Could it be that coin was originally damaged somehow at the mint, rejected and stamped ABUSED right at the mint before the 'tales' side got stamped.
It then somehow found itself outside the mint as a souvenir maybe by a mint employee?

Just a thought.

 

[diggervance]

Here is what was sent to me by one of the three experts on coin love tokens. ""Abused" is a very unusual or strange engraving for love token. It
qualifies as a love token if hand engraved on a coin of the realm. It is on
a coin and appears to be hand engraved. Why "Abused" I have no idea." As I said in my post I never heard o a Love token till this week.

 

[mudpuppy]

I've been thinking about this very cool and strange find of yours all day...Like mentioned, usually theres initials in fancy scrollwork on the back of old love tokens..."Abused" is what is strange, and how it appears to be pressed in...maybe it means something in another language other than English yet uses the same alphabet? I dont know dude, its cool and puzzling alright, please let us know the outcome of what you do with it...

I cant imagine any Woman would commission a coin like that, maybe a few Men would, to use as a golf ball marker on the putting green!
Mud

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Very cool indeed !