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Lot # 1168
USA. Token 1833 'I Take The Responsibility' Hard Times Token. AE. AU. The obverse depicts President Andrew Jackson inside an empty chest - which alludes to his looting of the Treasury. The reverse depicts President Jackson through the imagery of a donkey with an LL.D. on its side - which is a mockery of Jackson's honorary law degree received from Harvard in 1833, strongly disapproved of by alumnus John Quincy Adams; the Veto beneath the donkey is a reference to his stance against any legislation in favor of the Second Bank.