Many of you may have read my articles on love tokens. Well recently I came across another love token. This was found by a fellow detectorist and not of the common types you normally find.
Here is an article of other love tokens found.
Here
The one below however is quite unique and has been recorded with the museum. There is also an identidfication from the Finds Liason Officer.
This is an unusual love toke in that it is formed from a copper alloy jetton(a token used during accounting) It was made in nuremberg by conrad lauffer betwen 1660-1668.
The jetton is a show jetton a well crafted product in comparison to the thinner,poorer quality common nuremberg jettons, produced to showcase the makers talents.
It is based on the coinage of Charles 11 and shows the reverse of four shields of England,scotland and irland as usually seen on silver sixpences of the period
It may once have been tin washed giving it a silvery apperance which may be why it was used as a love token as these are normally formed from gold or silver coins.
Thanks to c scope skid for allowing me to share this with you.
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