Lot 535

Description

Love token, a Georgian penny shaved smooth on both sides, pierced hole at top edge for suspension, obverse, in the centre is stipple inscribed, 'J.Price' with a heart below and an intricate pattern around the outside, reverse stipple inscribed with a similar pattern around the outside and inside this pattern, 'How/Sweet/is/Love'. Very fine.

There are 14 people with the name J.Price on the list of convicts sent to Australia, however, the above item appears more likely to be a token given to a love interest rather then a convict token.