Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

WORLD COINS, USA, England, a William III, Crown [1695-6], first bust, edge octavo, rev. planed flat and engraved with a finely detailed portrait of Thomas Paine three-quarters right, cap of Liberty and a copy of his Rights of Man at right, 28.40g. Obverse fair, reverse very fine and with good detail, unusual and of significant interest £500-700

Thomas Paine (1736-1809), the English-American political activist and revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of the United States, wrote Rights of Man in 1791