Picard Hull Lead Works

I bought these a few years back only because I share the same last name. yes they have seen a lot of fingers but I like them.

 

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I live about 5 miles away from where the Lead Works used to be.

Here`s info on Mr Picard
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=62507

 

well, how cool is that?

 

Are these considered condor tokens? It's cool you got three different ones, very nice group.

 

copper commercial coins 1811-1819. there's a great book on them by RC Bell.

 

we don't use the term condor tokens in the uk,he was an American collector nothing more,we call them trade tokens

 

Very interesting, thank you! Which numbering system do you use to identify them?

 

Firstly, the privately issued tokens from 1787-1804 are called CondEr Tokens, not CondOr tokens. They are named after the gent who wrote one of the first references cataloguing them...not after a large bird.

With regard to the tokens posted by the OP, they do not fall in the Conder Token era. The standard reference is not the R.C. Bell book referenced, but is the Withers book (British Copper Tokens 1811-1820). They are assigned W-numbers to reflect their cataloging in the Withers book.

 

James Conder`s Token