Middlesex D&H 737 Spence's MedalsObv: A sailor seizing a landsman, BRITISH LIBERTY DISPLAYED around, 1795 in exergue. Rev: A reclining shepherd. Edge: PAYABLE IN LONDON and engrailed. Uncirculated and Choice brown. Well struck. Known as the first socialist, Thomas Spence was a thorn in the side of the crown during his time. His shop, The Hive of Liberty, was the source of his publication, Pigs Meat, or Lessons for the Swinish Multitude, Collected by the Poor Mans Advocate. After he
Obv: Bust of George IV facing right
Obv: A key suspended from an iron archway
PAYABLE IN HULL AND IN LONDON
SHIRT MAKER in circle
TENTERDEN HALFPENNY around
Counterfeit issue
MOSS CARMARTHEN SWANSEA AND AT JACOB & HALSE LONDON 1813 in eight lines within oak wreath
MARKET PLACE NORWICH in exergue
Obv: ONE PENNY PAYABLE BY in center double circle
BUCKS around
LUDGATE AS ENLARGE’D & C MCCCCLIIII around
The brothers sadly went bankrupt in 1813