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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 1260631, member: 4580&quot;]<b>Middlesex, Spence&#039;s DH 685a •&nbsp; 1795 Thomas Spence halfpenny Conder Token</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I checked Gary Sriro&#039;s CD and found that 10 examples of this type have been sold</p><p>in the world in the past 12 years or so.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1795 Thomas Spence Conder Token, Middlesex, Spence’s DH 685a, obverse</b></p><p><b></b><b>Engraver was Charles James, London.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Edge reads:</i> <b>SPENCE ✻ DEALER ✻ IN ✻ COINS ✻ LONDON</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Thomas Spence was a radical philosopher, author and publisher.</b></p><p><b>He was also a coin dealer and issued many satirical Conder Tokens.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Spence spent time in prison for publishing Thomas Paine&#039;s <u>Rights of Man.</u></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Occasionally, Spence would toss halfpenny tokens from his second story window to passersby.</b></p><p><b>On those days, he was quite popular, on other days, not so much.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>He wrote and spoke radically, advocating that all land be owned by all men in common,</b></p><p><b>with some organization proposed but essentially all for the common good.</b></p><p><b>Landowners would all have to give up their land.&nbsp; (Good luck, Thomas Spence.)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Spence even wrote a plan for America to deal with our Indian problems, in about 1795.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>This token remains in superb gEF condition, after more than 200 years in the custody of collectors and dealers.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After 12-6-10/Picture15-2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/After 12-6-10/Picture17-2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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