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Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect 1700-1850 (Paperback)
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Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect 1700-1850 (Paperback)
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Coins from the 18th and early 19th centuries are physically and
visually intriguing. In addition to their monetary uses, they were
repurposed to communicate private and public messages - from ad hoc
scratchings and punch marks to full-scale re-engraving of surfaces.
This book aims to give 21st-century readers insight into that
experience and to the many uno face="Cambria Math">fficial
purposes these objects served. Drawing on the largest extant
collection of defaced coins and tokens, this publication brings
together for the first time the full-range of expertise required to
understand the phenomenon, with contributions from 11 scholars and
collectors. It focuses on a significant period in British history,
when modification expressed political commentary, commercial
activity, familial and emotional commitment, personal identity and
life history. It will examine the coins and tokens themselves and
look at who modified them, where, why and how. The circumstances of
the coins' subsequent survival is explained, and each aspect will
be set in its specific historical contexts. Defaced coins and
tokens are often enigmatic objects, and this book will o
face="Cambria Math">ffer a means of decoding and assessing them,
while also drawing attention to their value as a distinctive source
of historical evidence. The contributors will also consider what
these surviving coins reveal about the society in which they were
produced and the light they shed on major historical developments
of the period. Tim Hitchcock, for example, discusses the new prison
culture that emerged following the outbreak of the American
Revolution in 1776, evidenced in a growing number of convict tokens
made in Newgate. Hamish Maxwell Stewart examines love tokens
illustrated with the 'Sailor's Farewell' within the context of the
market for sailor's gifts and tattoos to ward against the dangers
of oceanic travel. Steve Poole looks at tokens as souvenirs of
public hangings, not only in terms of the influence they exerted on
contemporary public opinion but as exemplars of the wider material
culture of public punishment. And Sally Holloway examines the
design and iconography of love tokens exchanged as romantic gifts.
As well as 12 essays, there is an annotated catalogue of 100 coins,
selected for their individual interest or representativeness of a
distinctive type of modification or motif.
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