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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 25378271, member: 101855"]Here's my "End of Pain" medalet. I have one because it's listed in DeWitt / Sullivan. [ATTACH=full]1624886[/ATTACH] Thomas Paine is big American hero because he wrote "Common Sense" during the Revolutionary period. He did well with that publication, but after that, his life went downhill. He went to England and supported the French Revolution, which made him very unpopular there, as you can see from this token. The situation in France was very fluid during the "Reign of Terror." One day, you could be among the "ins," and the next day you could be headed for guillotine. Paine was broke when he finally returned to America. Patriots like Thomas Jefferson helped him out financially, but he was washed up as a writer. Like John Brown, I think that he didn't make good choices. The French had good reason to have a revolution. The trouble was it really went off the rails. After Napoleon took charge, it got worse for the rest of Europe.[/QUOTE]