Let's see your Conder Tokens

I'm planning on bidding - just need to severely trim my wish list!

 

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A nice Bath City token, farthing. : )
I like both yours and yarm's example posted earlier.
I've added the token to my want list.

That's a very nice John Howard token, stebiz.
I have a couple of John Howard tokens .
In Canada, there is a John Howard Society,
supporters of prison reform like Howard was. : )

yarm -- those are really great medals/tokens.
They look to be in Gem condition or so. : )
Nice images, too.

 

Those are Very nice yarm.

 

Tonight I revisited this thread after being away for a while, and all I can say is WOW!!!
Wonderful tokens, everyone!
My collection consists of ungraded Conder tokens, ranging from VF+ to UNC.

 

My wish list for the sale is down to about ten or so lots as well, and I know I can't get all of them.

 

Hello yarm

As a resident of Bath, I suppose I ought to know the answer to this. The hospital was founded in 1742 and as the coin says, it was open to all visitors to Bath but not the people of Bath themselves. The reason, I believe, is that Bath is a spa city and that that time it was building its reputation as such by attracting visitors who wished to bathe and partake of the healing waters. The hospital was the logical extension to this, i.e. encouraging visitors who shall we say needed some form of healing. The good city burgers did not want local oiks filling up the places!

These Kempson's series of Bath Buildings are the cream of Bath tokens. I have 11 out of the series of 16 (and I hope to gain another shortly ....). Just to show that Bath citizens were not totally neglected, here is the Free Church and the Free School

Richard

 

Warwickshire, Birmingham 1

Here's a somewhat unusual Conder Token, valued at two shillings and sixpence,
or a half crown.

 

What's up with the color?

 

This half crown piece was 'silvered' at the time of striking, perhaps with silver powder,
rather than a slivered planchet. It may have required multiple strikes to effect the finish.

The only other piece I own that has been silvered is an Italian quattrini.

The silvering has been worn off on the highest points on this Conder Token, hence it's EF grade,
possibly AU here in the U.S.

 

DNW Auction-Oct. 6,2010

Dix Noonan auctioned Robbie Brown's Middlesex Conder tokens yesterday.
I thought the action was pretty fierce with 331 lots (1200 tokens) bringing
over £168,000 with the buyer's fee. Here's one I managed to buy (DNW images).

 

Yarm, you sure got a beauty.

 

Thanks Larry for the silvered info. Interesting.

 

Below is my 1 win from the DNW sale on the 6th. Catalogued as Argyllshire Inverary DH #2, made for collectors by Paul Skidmore. Rated Rare, it is just 1 of 2 tokens attributed to Argyllshire, the other being RRR.




The castle today:

 

Farthing, nice pickup! That's one of the toughest counties to get.

 

Nice one

 

I just love this thread...there are some brilliant tokens shown here and my collection pales in comparison. But anyway, here goes another. It's kind of worn, but I like this old Turk...

 

I like it too. Nice

 

Nice token, Moonshadow. A Turk, from the land of the belly dancers.
Your photos and the Campbell's Snuff Shop token are very nice.

All I can say about Yarm's latest DNW score, is that it is completely full of relief, luster and toning,
It's a beauty. My gosh.

And Skidmore's token looks like Boulton's cartwheel coins,
but they were not struck with steam, methinks.

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My Second Conder Conder

Here's a new arrival, one of six tokens...



James Conder was the guy that started it all, with his collecting and token catalogs or similar publications.
I'm sure it didn't take long for folks to get in the habit of calling them Conder Tokens,
especially after seeing the large number of merchant tokens for his business.

This is Suffolk, Ipswich DH-35, in prooflike UNC condition.





For a very LARGE view, click on thumbnail below, then click on the next image.



My other example is pictured here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Conder

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Posted elsewhere but these actually belong here...

A pretty nice D&H-439 from a Manchester England dealer...


And an exceptional D&H-458 from Bill McKivor...


My Pidcock's Exhibition NGC Registry set...

http://coins.www.collectors-society....ew.aspx?s=3037