two new additions - decent examples Middx 835 - bronzed-over white metal Middx 838 - struck in white metal.
Both are Conder tokens The 835 End of Pain obv is the same as the 834 obv. That obv represents an obvious contempt for T.Paine, his ideas and those that shared them. The 834 reverse is similar to that of the 838 white metal example pictured...The Wrongs of Man... Jany 21, 1793 This "parodies Paine's Rights of Man with The Wrongs of Man, and the date refers to the execution of Louis XVI, and the declaration of the French Republic." [Quote from R.C.Bell's Political and Commemorative Pieces Simulating Trade Tokens 1770-1802] Also according to Bell (and probably R.T. Samuel) the center of the 835's reverse represents the world on fire, and feeding the flames (or arising out of the flames) are conflicting ideas expressed by Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Burke was an opponent of the Fr. Rev. He published a pamphlet, "Reflections on the French Revolution" in 1790 to which Paine responded with the "Rights of Man" in 1791. Burke died in 1797.
