Coins and Australia - 1832 - Convict love tokens

Convict Love Token - 1832 - Betsey

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Token with a piece broken off where it was pierced. It has been engraved with a stippled zigzag border and stippled cursive text, with a scalloped flourish at the base:

[W]hen
this you see
Remember
Mee untill
I get My
liberty

Front

Token with a piece broken off where it was pierced. It has been engraved with a stippled zigzag border and seven lines of stippled cursive text:

A
token of
love from
Noah Stevens
to Betsey Nov
30 . 7 years
1832 ~

Diameter

36.0 mm

Copyright: National Museum of Australia

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