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Love Token - Grace Tuidley, England, Great Britain, 1781
Reg. No: NU 48173
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- Summary:
- Love Token inscribed Grace Tuidley, 1781. The token has been holed for use as a button.
Love tokens were often commissioned by convicts before they were transported to Australia, as a memento for their loved ones. Itinerant engravers visited the prisons and hulks, finding a ready market for these tokens, which were made to order from smoothed-down coins.
Love tokens are evidence of the British Government?s attitude to law and order and treatment of indentured labourers in a strict Government ?Assignment System? which provided cheap labour for the expanding British empire during the 1700s and 1800s.
About one third of migrants who came to Australia between 1830 and 1850 paid their own way. Convicts and settlers who came to Australia found that in comparison to Europe, conditions were very good and with hard work and determination they could prosper. - Description:
- A 1/2 penny of George II engraved on the reverse with edge indented and holed for use as a button
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Robert Edwards - Museum of Victoria, 1989
| Discipline: | Numismatics |
| Dimensions: | 27 mm (Diameter) |
More information
| Tagged with: | families, immigration, immigrant voyages, settlement, convicts, travel, love tokens |
| Themes this item is part of: | Numismatics & Philately Collection |
| Primary Classification: | TOKENS |
| Secondary Classification: | Great Britain - England |
| Tertiary Classification: | love tokens |
| DateEra: | 1781 AD |
| Obverse Description: | Worn - top of King's head can be seen |
| Reverse Description: | Engraved - Grace / Tuidley / 1781 |
| Edge Description: | tooled |
| Material: | Copper |
| Issued By: | England, Great Britain |
| Place & Date Inscribed: | England, Great Britain, 1781 |
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