Australian Historical Medals
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Lot 815 Session 3 (2.30pm Tuesday) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,200
LOVE TOKEN, engraved in small running script on a smoothed 1797 cartwheel penny, obverse 'Weep not/for me my wife/and children dear/with heavy heart/and could promise I/am confined here/with grief and sorrow/I am opprest thinking', reverse 'of you my/wife and dear/children I cannot/take no rest/Wm Jennings/M.J.Jennings/I wait for death/April 20 1820'. Fine.
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