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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 575463, member: 66"]Nice token, Middlesex D&H 1038g or h. There are three different die pairing for these tokens (two obvs and three rev) and several different edge varieties. Four different edges for 1037, ten on 1038, and six on 1039. 1037 and 1038 share the same obv, 1039 has the mans head just about centered under the word AND. On the rev of 1037 oppression is misspelled. On 1038 it is corrected, and on 1039 the lettering is smaller with more space between the words.</p><p><br /></p><p>1038 comes with two different diagonally milled edges. One, 1038g, milled sloping down to the left //////. And the other, 1038h sloping down to the right \\\\\\ with the milling over an inscription. (I don't know what the inscription is, and there may be more than one inscription.) The 1038g is "common" and the 1038h is extremely rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Am I not a Man tokens are in general common, but they are extremely popular collectables which makes them hard to get and costly for their relative abundance when found. Even low grade pieces can bring a pretty penny as Toad can tell you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tokens were struck for the Anti-Slavery Society but I do not know mintages, engravers or who did the striking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 575463, member: 66"]Nice token, Middlesex D&H 1038g or h. There are three different die pairing for these tokens (two obvs and three rev) and several different edge varieties. Four different edges for 1037, ten on 1038, and six on 1039. 1037 and 1038 share the same obv, 1039 has the mans head just about centered under the word AND. On the rev of 1037 oppression is misspelled. On 1038 it is corrected, and on 1039 the lettering is smaller with more space between the words. 1038 comes with two different diagonally milled edges. One, 1038g, milled sloping down to the left //////. And the other, 1038h sloping down to the right \\\\\\ with the milling over an inscription. (I don't know what the inscription is, and there may be more than one inscription.) The 1038g is "common" and the 1038h is extremely rare. The Am I not a Man tokens are in general common, but they are extremely popular collectables which makes them hard to get and costly for their relative abundance when found. Even low grade pieces can bring a pretty penny as Toad can tell you. The tokens were struck for the Anti-Slavery Society but I do not know mintages, engravers or who did the striking.[/QUOTE]
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