Convict token – Brooker / Elisabeth, 1820

Diameter: 35mm, thickness: 2mm

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Back

Token pierced at the base and engraved with nine lines of cursive text above a crossed heart and some ornamental flourishes.

Weep not
for me my Elisabeth
dear with heavey
heart . I am Confined
here with Grief and
sorrow . I am Oppresd
. Thinking of you . I
Cannot Take no
rest

Token pierced at the base and engraved with seven lines of cursive text above a crossed heart and a symbol resembling a flower or clover.

from rocks
and sand and
dangers free God
protect my love and
Mee
Jams Brooker
Jany 20 1820

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