gold coin?

jimther

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• Jan 15, 2019

• #21

Here it is in COINWORLD

Assuming it is a one Dollar denomination, a picture of obverse & reverse from Coinworld coin values web site.

https://www.coinworld.com/coinvalues/dollar/1853-gold-dollar-all-three-types.html

Jim

 

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• Jan 15, 2019

• #22

diggin4clad said:

One Dollar gold piece Type 1, minted from 1849-1854 and turned into a love token. GREAT find.

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+1
I bet that might be a family heirloom. Definitely worth holding onto!

 

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• Jan 15, 2019

• #23

hi all.thanks for all the help and sympathies.
here's some more pics of the coin and lockets.the watch i didn't take a pic of.i'll get around to it soon.coin is 13 mm.weight is in pic.

 

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jimther

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• Jan 16, 2019

• #24

Based on the coin's diameter it should be a Gold Dollar (versus a two and a half dollar). Your scale is in tenths and hundreds of an inch, but if you had shown a metric scale, it would show approximately 13mm, the size of a gold dollar in that series. New, it would have weighed 1.672 grams. Not sure why yours weighs 1.47 (wear maybe?). Composition: .900 Gold, .100 copper

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toyboy

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• Jan 16, 2019

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i used a crappy scale.i have a better one and i'll see if the weight changes.i suspect it will.

 

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• Jan 17, 2019

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Your gold Love Token would weigh less because of the removal of gold on the reverse of the coin where the engraving is.

 

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• Jan 17, 2019

• #27

Those are so cool!

HuntinDog said:

Your gold Love Token would weigh less because of the removal of gold on the reverse of the coin where the engraving is.

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That was my thought as well.

 

Bilgemaster

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• Jan 17, 2019

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That must have been a thing back in the day. Here's another example, though perhaps not as nicely done: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/dollar-22k-gold-gold-coin-engraved-1919858818.

As for who "Grace" may have been, I believe I may see a 2-Week Free Trial on Ancestry.com in the original poster's future.

Queen Victoria made charm bracelets very popular in this period, so that is what this very well may have been--a charm perhaps given to the mother with the child's name and birth year engraved on it.

 

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• Jan 18, 2019

• #29

beautiful gold coin!!