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The E-Sylum: Volume 28, Number 9, , Article 12

VIDEO TIMES AND TOKENS OF THOMAS SPENCE

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's another one from 2009 with Jerry Bobbe speaking about the tokens of Thomas Spence. -Editor

 

Thomas Spence screw press token A discussion and display of the alluring copper tokens produced by late eighteenth century British radical socialist, Thomas Spence. Nearly a hundred halfpenny and farthing dies were cut to order by the incomparable Charles James, which were struck into hundreds of politically charged combinations by Spence on his very own screw press. Except for the seven months imprisonment in 1794 for "high treason and seditious libel," Spence held business at his "Hive of Liberty," which was located in London at Number 8 Little Turnstile, High Holborn. There, in addition to his coin business, he issued a penny-weekly entitled "Pig's Meat, or Lessons for the Swinish Multitude." The incredible tokens of Thomas Spence vividly chronicle the challenges of British life under the demented and freedom-destroying Crown of "Mad" King George III and his evil Prime Minister, William Pitt, the Younger.

Speaker(s): Jerry Bobbe.

To watch the complete video, see:
Times and Tokens of Thomas Spence (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/557316)
Times and Tokens of Thomas Spence (https://youtu.be/5UduPnWJSAk)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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