The National Museum of Australia has 314 convict love tokens in its collection. These tokens were made by convicts around the time of their sentencing and were given to friends and loved ones as mementos.
Token engraved with stippled cursive text; the last line curved around the bottom edge of the token:
When
This you se
Remember me
Until i gain my
liberty
A token from
paul says:
HI Thanks for reply.I have been collecting Convict Love Tokens for a number of years now and find them fascinating .Paul
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Max says:
I love that you can see the original form of the penny showing through here.
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Sophie_Jensen says:
Hi Paul – thanks for your question. You are right in that
this particular token does not have anything to do with transpo...
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Paul says:
How does this token pertain to Australian convicts ?
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