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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 37, September 7, 2014, Article 37

ROWLAND CONVICT LOVE TOKEN SOLD

We've written about Convict Love Tokens earlier in The E-Sylum. An August 31, 2014 CoinWorld article by Jeff Starck discusses an example recently sold at auction. -Editor

Convict Love tokens

An artifact of a convict’s love nearly tripled its estimate when sold in Noble Numismatics’ July 29 auction.

The 1797 British Cartwheel penny carved into a love token by a convict in Australia sold in the firm’s auction No. 106 in Sydney, for $596.25 Australian (about $560.42 in U.S. funds) including the 19.25 percent buyer’s fee, nearly triple its $200 estimate.

Cartwheel pennies are noted for their size and weight (1 ounce, 36-millimeter diameter), which was possible because they were struck using steam power at Matthew Boulton’s Soho Mint. The Royal Mint lacked the technology to strike a coin of that size.

The piece in the Noble auction is cut in half, hollowed out and made into a container, which is inscribed inside on the base ELIZABETH/DA11IN/EDWARD/ROWLAND, according to the catalog, below which appear overlaid hearts with an arrow through them.

Rowland was sentenced at Central Criminal Court in London to seven years, and was shipped to Australia along with 189 other convicts on the Egyptian. The ship departed April 5, 1839, and arrived in Australia about Dec. 5, 1839.

To read the complete article, see:
Convict’s love token, made from 1797 British Cartwheel penny, realizes $560 U.S. in auction (www.coinworld.com/insights/convict_s-love-token--made-from-1797-british-cartwheel-penny--re.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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