- Mint State Uncirculated Great Britain Conder 1/2 penny token coin.
- Middlesex, Spence's D&H 842B.
- Activist "Pigs Meat" token dated to the 1790s.
- Certified by NGC to MS 64 BN.
- Obverse: A pig trampling upon emblems of royalty, above: liberty cap, PIGS MEAT PUBLISHED BY T. SPENCE LONDON
- Reverse: THOs SPENCE / Sir THOs MORE / THOs PAINE, around: NOTED ADVOCATES FOR THE RIGHTS OF MAN.
- Edge: Plain.
- Thomas Spence was an activist born in Newcastle in 1750. Spence was strongly influenced by the writings of Thomas Paine.
- In 1793 he started the periodical Pigs' Meat. He said in the first edition: "Awake! Arise! Arm yourselves with truth, justice, reason. Lay siege to corruption. Claim as your inalienable right, universal suffrage and annual parliaments."
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