ENGLISH TOKENS - D LONGLEY TO E HUGHES - CONVICT LOVE TOKEN 19th century AD Made on a smoothed 1979 cartwheel penny, small piercing for suspension. Obv: engraved in script lines 'A token / For E Hughes / two hearts over crossed arrows / From D Longley' within wreath. Rev: engraved in script lines 'When this / you see remember / me and bear me in / your mind let all the / world say what they / will speak of me as / you find' within wreath. 25.40 grams. [No Reserve] Condition Near as made, small edge knock to reverse rim; fine work. Literature See Field and Millett, Convict Love Tokens, Wakefield Press, 1998, p.87 (Clark) for an example of the same reverse inscription. Footnotes Convict love tokens, almost always on copper coins, were produced as keepsakes for family and loved ones, especially when the convict was facing transportation to Australia; they provide a fascinating insight into and connection with those who were convicted and banished from England in the early to mid 19th century.
ENGLISH TOKENS - D LONGLEY TO E HUGHES - CONVICT LOVE TOKEN 19th century AD Made on a smoothed 1979 cartwheel penny, small piercing for suspension. Obv: engraved in script lines 'A token / For E Hughes / two hearts over crossed arrows / From D Longley' within wreath. Rev: engraved in script lines 'When this / you see remember / me and bear me in / your mind let all the / world say what they / will speak of me as / you find' within wreath. 25.40 grams. [No Reserve] Condition Near as made, small edge knock to reverse rim; fine work. Literature See Field and Millett, Convict Love Tokens, Wakefield Press, 1998, p.87 (Clark) for an example of the same reverse inscription. Footnotes Convict love tokens, almost always on copper coins, were produced as keepsakes for family and loved ones, especially when the convict was facing transportation to Australia; they provide a fascinating insight into and connection with those who were convicted and banished from England in the early to mid 19th century.
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