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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;H8_modern, post: 3215559, member: 28531&quot;]A couple from the batch of interesting things I picked up today </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://imageshack.com/a/img922/1189/U2qXSJ.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://imageshack.com/a/img921/9537/IjtdDW.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;Am I not a Woman and a Sister?&#039; appeared on abolitionist tokens that have circulated in America and Great Britain. At the end of 1837 the American Anti-Slavery Society, located at 143 Nassau Street, New York, commissioned the firm of Gibbs Gardner &amp; Co. of Belleville, N.J. to strike these copper tokens. These tokens show significant relations between abolition and the fight for equal rights of women. There were also &#039;Am I not a Man and a Brother&#039; tokens, but the female version drew much more attention.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know nothing about this 1794 halfpenny token but was drawn to “Whale Fishery” legend.</p><p><img src="https://imageshack.com/a/img924/125/MmhmGh.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://imageshack.com/a/img921/245/7GvRnr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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