Middlesex-Spence’s D&H-1123a variety.

According to R.C. Bell’s Political and Commemorative Pieces Simulating Tradesmens’ Tokens 1770-1802, the central figure hanging from the gallows on the obverse of this piece is probably intended to be Thomas Pain, surrounded by Thomas Spence and Thomas Hardy or possibly Thomas Evans.

The inscription on the reverse plays on the double meaning of Knave for a rogue and a Jack in a deck of cards (a reference to the Jacobin Club, a far-left political movement at the time of the French Revolution, though the term came to refer to all supporters of revolutionary opinions).

The piece itself is a stone cold über-gem with pretty blue toning and flashes of fiery mint red on the obverse and reverse.

$2,975

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