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1794 Thomas Erskine/Friend to Freedom London Halfpenny Middlesex Conder Token
1794 Thomas Erskine/Friend to Freedom London Halfpenny Middlesex Conder Token

1794 Thomas Erskine/Friend to Freedom London Halfpenny Middlesex Conder Token

$ 79.2

Availability: 36 in stock
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Denomination: 1/2p
  • Grade: Ungraded
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Certification: Uncertified
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Year: 1794
  • Composition: Copper
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

    Description

    1794 Thomas Erskine/Friend to Freedom London Halfpenny Middlesex Conder Token. Shipped with USPS First Class.
    ThisPolitical and Social Series London (Middlesex) copper
    Thomas Erskine/Friend to Freedom Conder halfpennytoken (undated; circa 1794; Dalton & Hamer Middlesex No. 1010; Atkins 85;28.5 mm.) has great eye appeal with great color and surfaces.
    Obverse: Bust of Erskine in full wig to leftwith legend: “HON. T. ERSKINE.”
    Reverse:Legend on four lines: “A FRIEND | TO FREEDOM | & RIGHTS | OF MAN.”
    Plain edge.
    Erskine was the counsel for the successful defense of Thomas Hardy, JohnHorne Tooke, John Thelwall and others, all charged with high treason fororganizing political activists and publishing books and pamphlets critical ofthe government, in a series of trials in 1794.