- Rare Mint State Uncirculated Great Britain Conder 1/2 penny token coin.
- Catalog: Middlesex, Spence's D&H 889.
- Certified by NGC to MS 63 BN, Population Census This coin, NONE higher.
- Abundant red color, especially obverse.
- Vintage NGC holder, likely upgrade candidate to RB.
- Obverse: Four men dancing round a pole surmounted by a radiated head, pair of branches at each side, pair of cornucopia below, TREE OF LIBERTY.
- Reverse: Lion dismayed at a rooster crowing, LET TYRANTS TREMBLE AT THE CROW OF LIBERTY / 1795.
- Edge: SPENCE DEALER IN COINS LONDON.
- Thomas Spence was an activist born in Newcastle in 1750.
- An important French Revolution political satirical coin.
- The obverse, tree of liberty was a post or tree set up by the people from the time of the War of American Independence, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. Here the cap is replaced by a radiated head of Prime Minister Pitt.
- The reverse, lion trembling at the crowing of a rooster, is a representation of the Gallic rooster and the British lion.
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