Tokens of Love Loss and DisrespectCoins 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 unoffcial purposes these objects served. Drawing on the largest extant collection of defaced coins