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