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Message:: [QUOTE="CheetahCats, post: 851818, member: 23874"]Ryan - I believe I have your answer This appears to be an "Anti-Slavery Corresponding Society Halfpenny 1795" Please confirm the below following, especially if your specimen has edge lettering. Thanks, CheetahCats ________________________________________________Corresponding Society London (Middlesex) Anti-Slavery Copper Conder Halfpenny Token Dated 1795. Obverse: <ul> <li> Image: Flying Dove w/Olive Branch in Beak</li> <li> Motto: “UNITED FOR A REFORM OF PARLIAMENT</li> <li> Dated 1795</li> </ul>  Reverse: <ul> <li> Image: Two hands meeting as a symbol of friendship</li> <li> Motto: “MAY SLAVERY & OPPRESSION CEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD”</li> </ul>  Possible Edge Inscription: <ul> <li> “CELEBRATED FOR PURE AIR AND SEA BATHING”. </li> </ul>  Attributes / Diagnostics <ul> <li>D&H Middlesex #: 289d.</li> <li> Diameter 29mm.</li> </ul>  Previously Posted Value(s) <ul> <li>Grade Fine: $68.50 USD </li> </ul>BackgroundIn 1793 The London Corresponding Society was founded for the purpose of spreading revolutionary doctrines, much like those in France following the Revolution, through the pursuit of political reform through education. The society stressed the need of a government that was 'by the people'.  The society pointed out the corrupt methods that entailed the selections for Parliament, while at the same time advocating peace with France and also the abolition of slavery.[/QUOTE]