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farthing

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  1. Amazing pieces! As you can probably guess I am especially taken by the Conder tokens! Yes, 2023 was very good thanks to Baldwin's, I added over 100 tokens to my collection
  2. Great Britain has a long history of not producing enough small currency to support the needs of commerce. Notable periods of the populace resorting to the use of tokens to facilitate trade include the 1660's, 1790's and the 1810's, each of which have a vast variety of tokens to collect and many ardent collectors. Properly the tokens from the 1790's are '18th Century Provincial Token Coinage' but commonly referred to in the US as 'Conder' tokens after James Conder. James was not the first contemporary cataloger of the tokens but his was the first work used widely by collectors. His book was subsequently replaced by James Atkins book 'Tradesmen's Tokens of the 18th Century' and finally by the Dalton & Hamer book 'The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century' Many of the tokens were used in commerce (genuine trade tokens or GTT) while others were general tokens for trade, political tokens, private tokens, and medaletts made for collectors. They were actively collected in the 1790's which helps account to the huge numbers still found in mint condition. There are more than 1000 varieties of GTT If you would like to see some of the variety of tokens my Registry collection of these tokens can be found here: https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=1394
  3. Yorkshire Maldon - Catalogued by Dalton & Hamer as Yorkshire #3 Edmund Burke was born in 1729 in Dublin to a Catholic mother and a Protestant father and attended a Quaker boarding school. He first entered the House of Commons in 1765 representing Wendover in Buckinghamshire, followed by Bristol, and finally Malton. Edmund was recognised as a gifted orator, notable positions included the abolition of slavery, improved treatment of Indians by the East India Company, an end to the oppression of Catholics, Representative Democracy, and ending capitol punishment. He expressed support for the American colonies and argued for the repeal of taxation without representation, however, he was against independence, instead urging for a peaceful union with the colonies akin to the modern Commonwealth. The token came with multiple collector rounds and the pedigree goes back to James Atkins. The diesinker was John Westwood.
  4. Pidcock's advertising token catalogued as Dalton & Hamer Middlesex #445 The obverse features a Nylghau (an antelope native to India) while the reverse features an Ostrich. The diesinker and manufacturer was Charles James. James and Gilbert Pidcock were the proprietors of a traveling menagerie that toured England in the summer and wintered at their main quarters at the Exeter Exchange, situated on the site of the old Exeter House, on the north side of the Strand near the Lyceum. The exhibition closed in 1828. The Pidcock's produced a large number of advertising tokens in penny, half penny and farthing sizes with images of different and unusual animals featured in their business. NGC featured this token this week on their Instagram feed for #TokenTuesday, I believe this is the sixth token from my collection they have featured.
  5. A halfpenny sized token made for collectors catalogued as Middlesex Skidmore's Churches & Gates series #667 by Dalton & Hamer. It features the ruins of the Priory of St, Saviour on the obverse and the cypher PSCO on the reverse. The priory of Cluniac monks was founded in 1082. Two Queens died within the priory's walls, Catherine of Valois, the widow of Henry V on January 3, 1437 and Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV on June 18th, 1498. The priory was turned over to Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and torn down by Sr. Thomas Pope, founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Graded 64BN, NGC featured the token on their Instagram feed in March as part of #TokenTuesday.
  6. Ok, I'll play - farthing sized token catalogued as Middlesex Spence D&H 1095a, the obverse combining the head of a devil with that of the Prime Minister William Pitt, the reverse refers to the Seditious Meetings Act of 1795, commonly referred to as the Gagging Act. Provenance to Francis Cokayne which is about as good as it gets. Our host graciously graded it as 66RB.
  7. I was quite surprised to see my custom set listed, there are so many outstanding and creative sets in that part of the registry!
  8. Impossible to choose but I am very fond of this one - catalogued by Dalton & Hamer as 1794 Invernessshire Inverness 2a. A Matthew Boulton Soho bronzed proof, the diesinker was Conrad Heinrich Küchler. The edge reads PAYABLE AT. MACKINTOSH INGLIS & WILSON'S Added: NGC gave it 64BN
  9. One of my recent submissions: 12 coins submitted to NGC under Economy insured for $2500. Postage & insurance Priority to NGC $3.70 per coin Grading and photo $30 per coin ($22 + $8) Return shipping and Insurance 3.75 per coin Cost per coin: $37.45
  10. With more than 16,000 examples in the registry it seems that some type of competitive set(s) could be created for the series. Perhaps short sets such as Gloucestershire buildings 1-11 or Kempson Coventry buildings or the Lady Godiva set of tokens.