"END OF PAIN" 1792 SATIRICAL TOKEN SHOWING THOMAS PAINE ON GALLOWS.
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Winning Bid:
$402.50
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
Copper 1-3/16" by the English medallist John Stubbs Jordan and Birmingham Die-Sinker John Gregory Hancock. The obverse, with nice pink/blue patina, shows Paine hanging from gallows with a church at right. Reverse text is "Pandora's Breeches" with an outer edge of pellets and tiny pointing hands which distinguishes this from the later 1796 era "End Of Pain" tokens shown in DeWitt. Reverse has long die-break line at right. Shown are breeches with explosion clouds above. Below is small profile of Joseph Priestley on the body of a snake with his head pierced by a dagger. Paine, one of America's Founding Fathers, went to England in 1787, supported the French revolution and wrote the Rights Of Man in 1791 which was banned in Britain and resulted in his indictment for treason. William Robert Hay, a 1792 British collector, stated this Hancock/Jordan version of the "Pandora's Breeches" tokens "May Be Considered One Of, If Not The First, Of The Political Tokens Struck To Commemorate An Attempt To Fire The House Of Commons On May 9, 1792." VF. Ted Watts Collection.
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