A common find of metal detectorists across Britain is the silver "love token", from around 1700. Do any contemporary sources describe the custom?

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The tradition is both older and newer than this. As an example, in 1602 Samuel Rowlands produced a pamphlet poem Tis Merrie when Gossips meete, which included the verse

Well wot you Besse, to whom Ile drinke too now,

Sure as I liue, vnto your sister Sisse,

And to the Youth that did the Angell bow.

And sent it for a token : trueth halfe this :

He loues you both, vpon my word he doth,

Resolue it, or you wrong him Besse, in soth.

Here the Angel was a gold coin, twenty times more valuable than a silver sixpence but later the tradition was followed by poorer individuals, and bow involved putting a bend in the coin to discourage it from being spent. The later lines stated this was a love token.

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