Coins and Australia - 1849 - Convict love tokens

Convict Love Token - 1849 - James Clark

Transcription

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Token engraved with a stippled image of a monument with a cross, encircled by the words:

3 MONTHS.
HARD.L.R..LAID

Under the monument is the engraved image of something resembling a leg iron.

Front

Token engraved with a stippled zigzag border and a central image of a flower in a pot and a zigzag border. Around the pot is engraved in stippled text:

JAMES *CLARK*AGED 20 1849.

Diameter

36.0 mm

Copyright: National Museum of Australia

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