Our Food is Sedition - Nourished to Torment

363, Lot: 530. Estimate $150. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRADE TOKENS, Warwickshire. Birmingham. CU Penny (34mm, 17.14 g, 12h). Dated July 14. 1791. OUR FOOD IS SEDITION., the monster Sedition flying left, holding royal flag with a pileus on top of the pole; below, an imp wrapped around the bottom of the flag pole, suckling on the monster, holding a banner inscribed FACTION; to left, another imp holding a lit torch and sword / NOURISHED TO TORMENT., snake to right in the grass; sun rays above; JULY 14. 1791 in exergue. D&H 34. EF, mostly brown with some underlying red, die cud on the obverse edge.