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England - 1795

D. I. Eaton - Three Times Acquitted

Obverse:

A gentleman's bust, facing left.

Legend:

D.I. EATON THREE TIMES ACQUITTED OF SEDITION

Exergue:

On a ribbon below the bust: FRANGAS NON FLECTES

Edge:

engrailed

Reverse:

A cock sits on a fence overlooking four pigs in a sty.

Legend:

PRINTER TO THE MAJESTY OF THE PEOPLE . LONDON

Exergue:

1795

Vern's Comments:

Daniel Issac Eaton, a bookseller, was indicted for selling the second part of Paine's Rights of Man in 1793 and for a supposed libel on George III in Politics for the People in 1794; he was acquitted. He fled to America and was outlawed, 1796. In 1812 he was again indicted for issuing Paine's Age of Reason, and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment and to stand in the pillory when, to the credit of the populace, they cheered and endeavoured to convey refreshment to him. He died in poverty in 1814.

from British Historical Medals, pp. 87

England — Middlesex

D & H 301 — Denton`s Collectors` Tokens

O: Bust to left, with FRANGAS NON FLECTES on a ribbon under. D. I. EATON THREE TIMES ACQUITTED OF SEDITION.

A. 216

R: A cock crowing over pigs in a sty. PRINTER TO THE MAJESTY OF THE PEOPLE . LONDON . 1795.

E: engrailed