Australian Historical Medals
Lot 813 Session 3 (2.30pm Tuesday) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $340
CONVICT LOVE TOKEN, Great Britain cartwheel penny, 1797, obverse shaved smooth and engraved thereon are the initials, 'FAS' above is a cherub face with wings, at the sides crossed arrows, below are overlapped hearts sitting above a wreath of rose and thistle. Very fine.
Believed to relate to Frances Sage, sentenced at Middlesex Goal Delivery on 28 October 1812 to Life; departed on convict transport, Wanstead, arrived at NSW on 9 January 1814 and sent to Parramatta. On 24 September 1823 she was on a list of prisoners assigned.
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