Love token - Sarah Haliday
Title
Love token - Sarah Haliday
Subject
Numismatic object
Description
Image of a copper cartwheel penny rubbed smooth and engraved with idiom, name, two pierced hearts and two birds. Side one: engraved with idiom "Why not be true to me. Sarah Haliday D.W. It is you I only love and you I only have he sade" in roman lettering, highlighted in white, around decorative pattern in the centre. Side two: image of two birds holding a branch together in their beaks, plant pot with two pierced hearts and foliage detail, all engraved and highlighted in white.
Creator
Unknown
Source
Maidstone Museum Love token collection, Kent, England
Date
Unknown
Contributor
Rev. R.W.H. Acworth
Rights
Maidstone Museum, Kent, England
Format
Copper cartwheel penny
Identifier
M122
Coverage
Eighteenth/ early nineteenth century
Original Format
Copper cartwheel penny
Physical Dimensions
35.8mm
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