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A 1797 George 111 Penny- Protest Penny
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Here is a George the Third Penny, which was used in those days by protesting over the Rich Landlords.
THE DIES OF THOMAS SPENCE (1750-1814)
R. H. THOMPSON
THI S paper was stimulated by a most interesting handbill reprinted by Dr. Bell (1968 ,
165). 1
Although it had previously been reprinted by Arthur Waters, his work (1917 ) was
published in only seventy-five copies. Dr. Bell, however, added some comments denying
the handbill's authenticity, and it appears never to have been properly appreciated.
It seemed more likely that the preconceptions were false which denied the handbill
recognition than the handbill itself, and the skeleton of this paper, delivered at the British
Numismatic Society's symposium on the eighteenth century held in May 1969, was
devoted to proving the handbill's authenticity. However, the arguments developed for
this purpose serve also to identify Spence's dies as distinct from others with which they
are linked, and it is towards this problem of attribution that the following paper is
directed.2
Miss Marion Archibald and Dr. J. P. C. Kent, of the Department of Coins
and Medals at the British Museum, have been willing to discuss points in it at any time,
and to them I am deeply grateful. The splendid photographs for the plates I owe to
Messrs. John Webb of the Brompton Studio, and Peter Clayton.
After the minimum of detail essential to a chronology and understanding of Spence,
I identify as his several dies which name him, dies listed in combination in his Supplement, associated and other dies in the handbill, and dies linked chiefly with these
I consider a couple of dies which occur mainly with edges naming Spence discuss the
remaining linked dies, some of them appearing at first to be possible Spence dies and
deal briefly with the farthing-size dies. Finally, I consider the use Spence made of his
tokens, counterstamps, and dies. Within this framework I am able to add something to
Waters in description of the dies, which in certain cases might have sufficed to identify
them as Spence's. The descriptive notes are never, in the first instance, used for this
purpose, nor to make the designs conversation pieces of dubious relevance: they are
intended to explain the designs where necessary, and to indicate their relationship to
Spence and to their time. I have endeavoured to enter into his mind, to understand and
interpret him by his own lights, without (as George Vertue put it) 'any observations concerning right or wrong, just or unjust, leaving that to the impartial readers of the best
authentick writers'
SPENCE3
Thomas Spence was a poor schoolmaster of Newcastle upon Tyne. His experiences
led him to propose a phonetic alphabet (1775) This information I found by research---it might help the Buyer of this Coin--It sadly is notin Mint Condition as one recently sold, which was for £400
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StatusSOLD
Date1797
RefSpences 1797 Penny
PriceSOLD
€65.80
USD $69.66
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