san valentino e monete

[scacchi]

Transportation of British convicts to Australia and Tasmania between 1788 and 1868 caused much human loss and anguish. Convicts were separated from their loved ones, in most cases for life. Although sentences stated 7 or 14 years, most transportees never returned. Prison conditions allowed convicts access to money and, in some cases, the tools of their trade. By engraving low denomination copper coins like this large cartwheel penny of 1797, they could write of their sorrow

[ARES III]

Incisione un tantino grossolana compensata però dai profondi sentimenti che fuoriescono da questo tondello.