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LOT 3661
Group of Six [6] Post Medieval AR Love Tokens. 17th-18th century AD.
Each coin worn flat and bent into a double-curved 's' profile for use as a token of love. The custom of giving a bent coin as a love-token is known from the 17th century in England. The coins were usually smoothed to obliterate the monarch’s head and then bent twice; sometimes they were engraved with initials or symbols such as hearts or knots. If the sweetheart accepted the youth's advances, she kept the token; if not, she disposed of the coin. The tradition is referred to in the children's rhyme 'There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence on a crooked stile.' Condition as seen.(14.16gr total.).
ProvenanceFound Yorkshire, UK.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
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Ireland. Cronebane CU Halfpenny Token. Dated 1789.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Wicklow mint. CRONEBANE HALFPENNY, bust of Saint Patrick to right, wearing mitre and mozzetta, and holding crosier / ASSOCIATED IRISH MINERS ARMS, shield of arms, crest a windlass dividing date. Edge inscription: PAYABLE AT BIRMINGHAM LONDON OR BRISTOL. DH 46b. 10.44gr, 29mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020). -
Ireland. Cronebane CU Halfpenny Token. Dated 1789.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Wicklow mint. CRONEBANE HALFPENNY, bust of Saint Patrick to right, wearing mitre / ASSOCIATED IRISH MINERS ARMS, shield of arms, crest a windlass dividing date. Edge inscription: PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL. 8.81gr, 28mm, 6h.
Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020). -
England. North Yorkshire, York, John Orton AE Half Penny Token. Dated 1666.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
✿ IOHN • ORTON • GIRDLER, Girdlers' Arms / ✿ IN ✱ YORKE ✱ 1666, HIS HALFE PENNY ✱✿✱ in four lines. Dickenson 424. 1.26gr, 20mm, 9h.
Fair.
Found Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire, UK, in March 2000. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. Accompanied by an illustrated record slip by Jim Halliday dated 4 April 2000.
