½ Penny Middlesex - Slave
© Cuthwellis
Features
| Issuer |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens |
| Years | 1787-1797 |
| Value | ½ Penny (1⁄480) |
| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1971) |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | 9.19 g |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | 15 October 1831 |
| Number | N# 197941 |
| References | DH# 1037 Richard Dalton, Samuel H. Hamer; 1918. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Davisson's Ltd., London, United Kingdom. James Atkins; 1892. The Tradesmen's Tokens of the Eighteenth Century. W.S. Lincoln, London, United Kingdom. |
Obverse
Slave in chains kneeling in supplication, legend around.
Script: Latin
Lettering: AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER
Reverse
Clasped hands, legend around.
Script: Latin
Lettering: MAY SLAVERY & OPRESSION CEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD +
Edge
Incuse legend (varieties exist)
Script: Latin
Lettering: PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR LONDON •••••
Comments
Part of the Political & Social Series, struck in the 1790's after the designs by abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood.
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London. The Society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the slave trade; it achieved abolition of the international slave trade in 1807, enforced by the Royal Navy. The United States also prohibited the African slave trade that year, to take effect in 1808.
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, by twelve men who gathered together at a printing shop in London. The Society worked to educate the public about the abuses of the slave trade; it achieved abolition of the international slave trade in 1807, enforced by the Royal Navy. The United States also prohibited the African slave trade that year, to take effect in 1808.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (1787-1797) | DH#1037 - PAYABLE IN DUBLIN OR LONDON | ||||||||||||||
| ND (1787-1797) | DH#1037a - THIS IS NOT A COIN BUT A MEDAL | ||||||||||||||
| ND (1787-1797) | DH#1037b - milled edge \\\ | ||||||||||||||
| ND (1787-1797) | DH#1037c - plain edge | ||||||||||||||
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