Love token - My heart is fixt
Title
Love token - My heart is fixt
Subject
Numismatic object
Description
Image of a copper coin rubbed smooth and engraved with hearts and idiom. Side one: two overlapping, bleeding and flaming hearts pierced diagonally by two arrows. "Elizabeth Phipps" above and date "1781" below. Side two: "My heart is fixt I cannot range I love my choice too well to change". Both sides with decorated borders, in Roman block style lettering.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Maidstone Museum Love token collection, Kent, England
Date
Engraved date 1781
Contributor
Rev. R.W.H. Acworth
Rights
Maidstone Museum, Kent, England
Format
Copper halfpenny coin
Identifier
M010
Coverage
Eighteenth century
Original Format
Copper halfpenny coin
Physical Dimensions
27.9mm
- Date Added
- November 23, 2011
- Collection
- Maidstone Museum
- Item Type
- Still Image
- Tags
- copper, courtship, engraved date 1781, halfpenny, heart, idiom, name
- Citation
- Unknown, “Love token - My heart is fixt,” When this you see remember me, accessed May 18, 2024, https://lovetokens.omeka.net/items/show/10.