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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24565830, member: 101855"]Yea, right. You do realize that there are only, I think, three examples known of the American version of that. The British version is much easier, actually possible to collect. [ATTACH=full]1557204[/ATTACH] Here is an example of the American version. [ATTACH=full]1557205[/ATTACH] This one would appear to have rim issues, but it doesn't. It is actually a high grade example of Low 54 B. There are three minor varieties of this piece with slightly different diameters. The American Anit-Slavery Society, which was located at 154 Nassau Street in New York City had these pieces made by the firm of Gibbs Gardner & Co. in Belleville, NJ. They paid 50 cents per hundred for these pieces and advertised them for 1 dollar per hundred. The U.S. Mint Director found out about these and demanded that the Society stop selling them. The reason was that slavery was a politically charged subject in 1838, and the Federal Government did not take kindly the political agitation over it. Russell Rulau mentions that the remaining examples of this token may have been distributed by a middle man who obtained them for 62 cents per hundred. The backward "N" is a die cutting error. All it takes is to tap the letter punch in upside down.[/QUOTE]