Love token - J. Presnalle & Martha Green
Title
Love token - J. Presnalle & Martha Green
Subject
Numismatic object
Description
Image of copper cartwheel penny rubbed down and engraved with names and idiom. Side one: engraved with "A token of love. The gloomy month December shall belight the flowers of May. Eie I cease to remember my love when far away" and "April 1829". Side two: engraved with the image of a pierced heart with two arrows, flourishes, and "J Presnalle 21 years to Martha Green aged 18 years".
Creator
Unknown
Source
Maidstone Museum Love token collection, Kent, England
Date
Unknown; engraved date 1829
Contributor
Rev. R.W.H. Acworth, Maidstone Museum, Kent, England
Rights
Maidstone Museum, Kent, England
Format
Copper cartwheel penny
Identifier
M134
Coverage
Eighteenth/ early nineteenth century
Original Format
Copper cartwheel penny
Physical Dimensions
35.67mm
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