Convict love token (verso)

For the majority of convicts sent to Australia transportation meant life separation from family and friends. To ease the pain of departure many produced tokens as gifts, a practice that continued throughout the entire period of British transportation to Australia from 1788 to 1868. This 1795 Anglesea penny was engraved on both sides and features the inscribed names of the sweethearts William Moreton on the front and Hannah Gold on the reverse. It is also decorated with engravings of a rose and two hearts with an arrow.