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A wonderful collection of love tokens has been added to the website including some very unusual pictorial coins. These coins are getting harder to find so I am delighted to be able to offer you such a varied selection. Check out my article that I wrote many years ago all about collecting love token coin charms; https://www.sandysvintagecharms.com/pages/love-tokens Best wishes, Sandy

The humble bean .... from broad beans, to baked beans, from edamame to kidney beans. They come in all different sizes and colours but what made them lucky? Imagine 500 or 600 years ago you are walking along a beach and find a strange nut like object you have never seen before. Unbeknown to you, you have just found a sea bean. It could have drifted for weeks or months and travelled hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles from an exotic land.    Sea beans were seeds from giant pods found in the Caribbean and North & South America. They drifted...