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MEXICO: Maximiliano I, 1864-1867, AR peso, 1867-Mo. F

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:80.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
MEXICO: Maximiliano I, 1864-1867, AR peso, 1867-Mo. F
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MEXICO: Maximiliano I, 1864-1867, AR peso, 1867-Mo, KM-388.1, with mount attached, reverse smoothed down and engraved with initials into "love token", a very unusual type to have engraved this way, Fine, R.

The manufacture and practice of giving a "love token" seems to have originated in Great Britain in the early 1800s, and then migrated to the United States in the mid-to-late 1800s. The standard reference work on love tokens is Love Tokens as Engraved Coins (1991) by Lloyd L. Entenmann.