Convict Love Token - 1838 - Bignel
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Pierced token with stippled scalloped frame around a square border with hearts in each corner enclosing stippled cursive text:
James
Talbot . Aged 22
[Sofire]
Bignel Agd 21
At the base is the date:
1.8.3.8
Front
Token pierced to the right of the text, and engraved with eight lines of stippled cursive text:
Remember
me . when . this . you .
see . and . bear . me .
in . your . mind. le[t]
all . the . world . say .
what they . will .
speak . of . me . as
. you . find
Diameter
36.0 mm
Copyright: National Museum of Australia
