Undated: Maria

Object number: 2008.0039.0300

Details

Diameter: 35mm, thickness: 3mm

Front:

Token precisely engraved with a stippled scalloped border and seven lines of text, with the word ‘love’ enclosed in a stippled chain border at the base:

DEAREST MARIA
FAREWELL SINCE NOW
I MUST BID YOU ADIEU
IF PLEASE THE LORD I DO
RETURN DEAR MARIA
I’LL MARRY YOU
LOVE

Back:

Token precisely engraved with a stippled scalloped border and seven lines of text:

O TELL MY
DEAREST FRIENDS AT
HOME TO WEEP FOR ME
NO MORE FOR I LIVE IN
HOPES TO FIND A
FRIEND UPON SOME
FOREIGN SHORE

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