Royal Mint offers Love token!
Royal Mint offers love token, at this Valentine’s Day! Coins have long played their part in romantic rituals with many traditions stretching back centuries. The ‘love token’ is one such tradition. Love tokens are given as a sign of affection, to be kept and cherished, and they have been carried for luck for centuries. Some love tokens can also be attached to jewellery.
If you are looking for a unique way to show your love this Valentine's Day, choose to combine love and money by choosing a beautiful coin or gift from The Royal Mint that perfectly reflects your sentiments. While many other gifts are temporary, a coin lasts forever, and isn’t that what we want most from true love?
The earliest Wedding Vows even included reference to gifts of gold and silver. The coin you hold today may have already passed through the hands of your partner long before you met and equally your future husband or wife may be in possession of a coin that you will soon come to hold. Coins tell stories, and they are a part of our everyday lives like no other object. This gives them great significance, and gives them an inherent romantic quality.
This human connection to coins, somewhat maligned in the modern world, had great relevance to earlier generations for whom coins held even greater value. Coins with intrinsic metal value, particularly silver coins became associated with the romantic tradition because giving them away represented an act of real sacrifice for the one you love.
In England, love tokens were commonly formed from silver coins that were bent with the hands. These are known to the collecting world as ‘benders’ and are often found by metal detecting enthusiasts. Whether this indicates a lot of failed romantic gestures is difficult to say, but certainly these tokens were part of a commonly practised tradition.
Naturally, it was the sixpence that took the starring role in this feat of strength…it’s the coin that is forever entwined with romance in England.
