[ **up: [[Love tokens]]** ] --- # ‘Crooked’ coins [[2025-0104. '‘Crooked’ coins were superstitious objects thought to bring good fortune. They were used to wish love and luck into the future of a courting couple, or foundlings left at the Hospital.'|'‘Crooked’ coins were superstitious objects thought to bring good fortune. They were used to wish love and luck into the future of a courting couple, or foundlings left at the Hospital.']][^1] [^1]: Sally Holloway, ‘Tokens of History: Love Tokens’, *Foundling Museum*, retrieved 4 January 2025, https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/tokens-of-history/love-tokens/.