- Gem Mint State Uncirculated Great Britain Conder farthing (1/4 penny) token coin.
- 1790's Adam and Eve and "Pigs Meat" token Middlesex, Spence's D&H 1083.
- Certified by NGC to MS 65 BN, Population Census: 4 coins, none higher!
- Toned with some original red color.
- Obverse: Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, MAN OVER MAN HE MADE NOT LORD.
- Reverse: A pig trampling upon emblems of royalty, above: liberty cap, PIGS MEAT PUBLISHED BY T. SPENCE LONDON.
- Edge: Plain.
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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 prison he opened a shop in Chancery Lane where he sold radical books and pamphlets.
- In 1793 he started a periodical, Pigs' Meat. He said in the first edition: "Awake! Arise! Arm yourselves with truth, justice, reason. Lay siege to corruption. Claim as your inalienable right, universal suffrage and annual parliaments. And whenever you have the gratification to choose a representative, let him be from among the lower orders of men, and he will know how to sympathize with you."
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