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Auction T20 30 Sep 2021
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British Tokens from Various Properties
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Transportation: an unidentified coin (with edge centre-grained left), both sides planed smooth and stipple-engraved jo dike 10 years i hope my love you will think on me when i be on the sea 1840, 12.43g. Very fine £200-£260
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John Dike (b. 1816), son of John and Elizabeth Dike of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. In March 1840 he was convicted of sheep stealing at Wiltshire Assizes and sentenced to ten years' transportation. He was held on the prison hulk Leviathan in Portsmouth harbour. There is no record of a John Dike (or Dyke) arriving in Australia so it is possible that the sentence of transportation was commuted. He is recorded on the censuses of 1851, 1861 and 1871 as living in Bath
Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Transportation: an unidentified coin (with edge centre-grained left), both sides planed smooth and stipple-engraved jo dike 10 years i hope my love you will think on me when i be on the sea 1840, 12.43g. Very fine £200-£260
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John Dike (b. 1816), son of John and Elizabeth Dike of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. In March 1840 he was convicted of sheep stealing at Wiltshire Assizes and sentenced to ten years' transportation. He was held on the prison hulk Leviathan in Portsmouth harbour. There is no record of a John Dike (or Dyke) arriving in Australia so it is possible that the sentence of transportation was commuted. He is recorded on the censuses of 1851, 1861 and 1871 as living in Bath