Halfpenny Token Middlesex End of Pain, Coin from Great Britain - detailed information

This coin was issued in Great Britain.

We have no further information yet but will soon expand this page.

Middlesex, London, Skidmore's "End of Pain" hanging man halfpenny token, DH 833a, issued c. 1791.

The obverse of the token satirises the atheist revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809); the reverse showing a copy of "The Wrongs of Man", a jibe at Paine's "Rights of Man".

Examples of this token in worn condition turn up occasionally and show that these political pieces were genuinely used as currency, spreading their (broadly pro-establishment!) message.MIDDLESEX. Spence's End of Pain Halfpenny. D&H 831. RR