Oddity 1887 Seated Liberty Dime With Milled Reverse

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Rich New Member United States 5 Posts	Posted 07/23/2011 4:57 pm Newbie here and I hope I'm not posting on the wrong forum. I got this dime in change about 50 or so years ago and have always wondered about it. Someone once said it might be a souvenir of the the 1893 Chicago Words Fair. The milled reverse is quite professionaly engraved. Any thoughts or comments? Thanks, Rich Report this Post to the Staff

rachums107 Pillar of the Community United States 3345 Posts	Posted 07/23/2011 6:06 pm to this here community. Nice grab from change! But that was 50 years ago, imagine something like that today. Definitely could have come from the fair, unless it says 1293 instead of 1893. But I think it was a fair souvenir like you said, might have even been encased awhile ago. But Report this Post to the Staff
macmercury Pillar of the Community United States 5822 Posts	Posted 07/23/2011 6:13 pm That's a love token or something related, and appears it once was solder at the reed edge to a chain worn as jewelery. The chain was removed and used as a regular coin in circulation. Report this Post to the Staff
sch1tz0fr3nik Valued Member United States 77 Posts	Posted 07/24/2011 9:23 pm Pretty cool, I was looking at something similar on a Seated dime, the reverse says "Maddie" . Macmercury is right, They would do Love Tokens out of those. That year could be the year some one was born, Married, Special event. Who knows. But defiantly a cool piece Report this Post to the Staff
Bryan1315 Bedrock of the Community United States 14454 Posts	Posted 07/25/2011 07:10 am This is a few of my Love Tokens. I am not sure this would have been used as a love token even though that is the category everyone puts them in when they are engraved now. I think a Love token would have initials on it instead of just a date. There is a great possibility that this did come from the fair but they would have been so many vendors doing them it would probably be impossible to be 100% sure Report this Post to the Staff
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