Description:Although dated 1807 this token was struck in 1814 and issued in 1815. Around 50,000 were produced at the Soho Mint for the Macauley and Babington trading establishments in Sierra Leone.
The obverse design commemorates the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire in 1807. The inscription on the reverse reads THE SALE OF SLAVES PROHIBITED IN ENGLAND IN 1807 OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA IN THE REIGN OF SULTAN GEORGE THE THIRD- VERILY WE ARE ALL BROTHERS.
The obverse was engraved by G.F. Pidgeon and the reverse by John Phillp.