1795 NGC MS 64 Spence Pigs Meat Farthing Conder Token Middlesex DH 1117 Coin (22020301C)

Near Gem Mint State Uncirculated Great Britain Conder farthing (1/4 penny) token coin. 1795 "Pigs Meat" token Middlesex, Spence's D&H 1117. Certified by NGC to MS 64 BN. Toned with lustrous surfaces (some original red is present). Obverse: A pig trampling upon emblems of royalty, above: liberty cap, PIGS MEAT PUBLISHED BY T. SPENCE LONDON.  Reverse: THOs SPENCE / Sir THOs MORE / THOs PAINE 1795, around: ADVOCATES FOR THE RIGHTS OF MAN.  Edge: Plain.  Thomas Spence was an activist born in Newcastle in 1750 Spence became a schoolmaster and he gradually developed radical political views and in the 1770s began to argue that all land should be nationalised. Spence was strongly influenced by the writings of Tom Paine. In Newcastle he sold Paine's work on the street as well as pamphlets that he had written. In December 1792 Spence moved to London and attempted to make a living my selling Tom Paine's Rights of Man on street corners. He was arrested but soon after he was released from pri