Triton XVIII, Lot: 1883. Estimate $200. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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TOKENS, Middlesex. London. Political and Social Series. AR Token (.3.5mm, 10.87 g, 6h). Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Obverse design after William Hackwood. Struck circa 1790. AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?, chained male slave kneeling right, raising hands in supplication / WHATSOEVER/ YE WOULD THAT/ MEN SHOULD DO/ TO YOU./ DO YE/ EVEN SO TO/ THEM. in seven lines. D&H 235
bis IV; Eimer 836; BHM 269. Fine. Very rare.
From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Dix, Noonan, & Web (6 October 2010), lot 562; W.J. Noble Collection (Noble 58B, 7 July 1998), lot 397 (part of).