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LOT 1825
William III Silver Love Token Group
1694-1702 A.D.
3/4 in. (7.45 grams total, 20 mm each).
Group of three love tokens, each a sixpence coin bent into a double-curved profile; one pierced and with initials to each face. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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."
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