Convict Love Tokens

In response to yesterday’s post on trench art, one of Microkhan’s treasured Aussie readers turned us on to convict love tokens. These engraved coins were made by English convicts as they awaited deportation to Australia, during the island continent’s 19th-century turn as a massive penal colony. The token to the right was produced by an English baker who received a seven-year sentence for robber; the cryptic (yet oddly hopeful) inscription, painstakingly engraved with a pin-like object, reads: “W