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[sovay]

a_reasonable_man thought I could use a talisman and brought me a 1923 Peace dollar that belonged most likely to his grandfather's second wife. It's as old as my grandmother would be. I have buttoned it inside my coat. It's a treasure.

Comments

[selkie]

A very strong talisman indeed. I’m glad it’s with you. (It can share a pocket with the bracelet!)

[sovay]

A very strong talisman indeed. I’m glad it’s with you. (It can share a pocket with the bracelet!)

I'm not taking that one out of my coat any time soon, either.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

What a lovely talisman. May it be e pluribus unum again one day.

[sovay]

What a lovely talisman. May it be e pluribus unum again one day.

Amen.

*hugs*

[sabotabby]

Ooh I love it.

[sovay]

Ooh I love it.

It's an incredible thing to be entrusted with.

[chomiji]

One of my Facebook friends is a Jewish witch who makes talismans. It's fascinating (so is her site).

[sovay]

One of my Facebook friends is a Jewish witch who makes talismans. It's fascinating (so is her site).

Neat! Most of what I know about Jewish folk magic is the stuff An-sky was collecting in the Pale of Settlement.

[heavenscalyx]

I love silver dollars as talismans, and what a remarkable history! My mother still carries a Morgan dollar her father gave her when she was a child.

[sovay]

I love silver dollars as talismans, and what a remarkable history! My mother still carries a Morgan dollar her father gave her when she was a child.

That's wonderful! It makes sense to me that she should.

[regshoe]

:O That's so cool.

[sovay]

That's so cool.

A totally unexpected beautiful thing.

[gullyfoyle]

That's really neat. My dad acquired a silver dollar as a young man and decided not to spend it, so he carried it in his pocket every day. By the time I was a boy in the early 1970s, it had worn into a smooth featureless disk. People would see it when he pulled out his change to pay for something and they'd ask what it was. He'd reply "That's the new Nixon dollar!" I don't know what eventually happened to it, but I hope it was buried with him.

[sovay]

By the time I was a boy in the early 1970s, it had worn into a smooth featureless disk. People would see it when he pulled out his change to pay for something and they'd ask what it was. He'd reply "That's the new Nixon dollar!" I don't know what eventually happened to it, but I hope it was buried with him.

It sounds like a perfect grave good.

(I carried a French 50-franc note with the Little Prince and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from 1999 for about two decades until it frayed in half.)

[umadoshi]

Oh, wow...! That's beautiful.

[sovay]

Oh, wow...! That's beautiful.

I was really stunned by it and the impulse behind it is incredibly kind.