Rare!!! 1838 British D.R Baron Spolasco Trade Token (brass)

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Rare!!!  1838  British D.R Baron Spolasco Trade Token (brass) 22mm

Baron Spolasco (ca. 1800-ca.1858) was a notorious quack. While practicing medicine in Ireland, he was also known as John Williams and John Smith. He was a passenger in a shipwreck in 1838, about which he advertised his heroism. He subsequently practiced in Wales, London, and beginning in about 1850 in New York. He was satirized by Walt Whitman.

Obverse

Clothed bust three-quarters to left, with head facing, within a circle; in a curve above, THE BARON SPOLASCO M.D.&C.; and below, THE REAL FRIEND / OF THE AFFLICTED in two lines; the whole within a beaded circle.

 

Reverse

In a field, THIS / EMINENT / PHYSICIAN'S / 5.000. RECENT / ASTOUNDING CURES / AND HIS NARRATIVE / OF THE KILLARNEY / IMMORTALIZE / HIS NAME in nine parallel lines; above, in a curve, JAN 22 1838 [both 'Y' and 'D' underlined] and below the ornamental line, SWANSEA Sth WALES in a curve; the whole within a beaded circle

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