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

    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.