Sierra Leone Penny (Token) 1807 Abolition of Slave Trade by Great Britain. NGC MS 62 BN

Prijsbieding

Certification details

Certification number: 6672990-007

Grade: MS 62 BN

Nominal value: BRONZE

Mint Mark: EIMER-984

Variety: SLAVE TRADE ABOLITION

Year: 1807 G.BRIT

1807, Sierra Leone(British Colony). Abolition of Slave Trade. Copper Penny Token. NGC MS-62!

Medallist: G.F. Pigeon
Issuer: Macaulay & Babington.
Mint Place. Soho mint, Birmingham, UK.
Mint Year: dated 1807, struck ca. 1814.
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as MS-62!
References: Eimer 984, Vice 1, KM-Tn1.1 (listed under Sierra Leone).
Denomination: Medallic Penny Token - Abolition of Slave Trade by Great Britain, during 1807.
Weight: ca. 17.5gm
Material: Copper
Diameter: 36mm

Obverse: A British officer with left hand on his chest clasping hands with a freed half-nude slave. Medallist´s signature (G.F.P.) below. Tropical landscape in background with fenced cottages and two agricultural workers in field to left and five nude male figures dancing around a tree to right.
Legend: WE ARE ALL BRETHREN
Exergue: SLAVE TRADE ABOLISHED BY GREAT BRITAIN 1807

Reverse:Arabic inscription in six lines with a separating line and palm-sprays in saltuer. Medallist´s signature (J.P.FECIT) below.
Legend (translated): "Sale of slaves prohibited in 1807, Christian era, in the reign on George the Third. Verily, we are all brothers."


The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, (or The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade), was a British abolitionist group, formed on 22 May 1787, when twelve men gathered together at a printing shop in London, England.

The first anti-slavery statement by Dutch and German Quakers was signed at Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1688. Following this, English Quakers had begun to express their official disapproval of the slave trade since 1727 and promote reforms. From the 1750s, a number of Quakers in Britain's American colonies also began to oppose slavery, calling on English Quakers to take action, and encourage their fellow citizens, including Quaker slave owners, to improve conditions for slaves, educate their slaves in Christianity, reading and writing, and gradually emancipate them.

In 1807 the British Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade and enforce this through its maritime power. The following year, Freetown in West Africa, established in 1788, when the Timni chief Nembana sold a strip of land for the use of a free community of ex-slaves from America, was given greater British protection under a separate Act.

Verzendkosten