Convict Love Token - 1831 - Deney Briant
Transcription
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Token engraved with stippled text on the reverse of a cartwheel twopence. On either side of the figure of Britannia runs the text:
7 Y
AGED XIX
Inside the border between the date 1797 and the word BRITANNIA are the words:
SEPR 8
1831 .. o ..
Front
Token engraved with a border of cut marks and the stippled image of a man wearing chains. Inside the border runs the stippled text:
YOUR . ILL . FATED . BROTHER . BOUND . IN . SLAVERY .
On the inside of this border is the name:
.DENEY. . BRIANT.
Diameter
40.0 mm
Copyright: National Museum of Australia
