Obv: A man sitting in prison gnawing a bone, chained to the wall, BEFORE THE REVOLUTION around, 1795 below. Rev: A reclining shepherd under a tree, sheep and mountain in the distance, 1790 below. Edge: PAYABLE IN LONDON and engrailed.
Uncirculated and Choice brown. Obverse shows early die state with no crack. Scarce. Ex. Deane.
This provocative pairing of dies shows the before/after visions of the common man as seen by Spence. The figure is Spence himself, as he had been jailed for selling the second part of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man.