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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 160542, member: 66&quot;]Here is a little more information on the token from the original thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated it was issued by William Lutwyche of Birmingham in Warwickshire England.&nbsp; The Reverse die was Lutwyche&#039;s personal die used for his own advertisment.&nbsp; The obverse die was meant to commemorate King George III&#039;s return to health from one of his periodic bouts of madness.&nbsp; (Eventually the Kings sanity left him completely and his son George IV governed as regent during about the last ten years of his life until George III&#039;s death in 1820.&nbsp; At which point George IV assended to the throne.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The dies for the token were engraved by Noel-Alexandre Ponthon who worked at the Soho Mint in Birmingham.&nbsp; The mintage was about 103,000 pieces.&nbsp; The obverse die was also muled with two different patriotic dies and issued for general circulation</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if that is George II or not.&nbsp; I think the image had a different specific poliical meaning but I haven&#039;t been able to find a reference to it.&nbsp; The slopseller was James Spence the brother of Thomas Spence the political rabble rouser, supporter of Thomas Paine, and issuer of many tokens.&nbsp; He produced twenty different tokens for his brother muling his obverse with dies that Thomas had used for his own tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The hanging man was normally used to represent Thomas Paine or in the case of three men, the three Thomases, Thomas Paine, Thomas Spence, and Thomas Hardy.&nbsp; They were advocates for social reform and supporters of the revolution going on in France.&nbsp; They advocated the import of some of its ideas to ingland including the overthrow of the Monarchy.&nbsp; They were tried on several cases for sedition and High Treason.&nbsp; They were acquited on more than one occasion but the sentiment of many of the people was more along the lines of what was pictured on the tokens.&nbsp; It eventually became to &quot;hot&quot; for Paine and he eventually had to flee to France.&nbsp; (Where he finally got into trouble with the French and had to flee from France as well.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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