Tokens anyone?

Well, you certainly know alot about these Conder tokens and alot of other stuff as well. :thumb: With that said, I wonder if I goofed when I made this purchase of off ebay? I just paid for it today and I think I will enjoy it either way as it will be mine soon. Oh, do the most latest versions of the Conder look really shiney live they've been spray painted with something?

Interesting subject line the item had,
Item number: 380147465599 Condor Token Great Britain Suffolk Hoxne DH33a Conder

 

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Here is my Condor coin from Chile. Note on the back a Hammer and Sickle. First Marxist country 1895. Here is another French Jeton this one from the 19th Century. And lest we forget our military challenge coins. Traci :loud:

 

You amaze me!! You really have some nice coins. I've always wanted one of those Chilean condor pesos and you just gave me another reason for getting one. My hat's off to you, if I wore one. :smile

 

Might as well put up a few more Jetons and such. Traci :whistle:
My lucky Dragon
18th century Jeton Louis XV French
French Black Death Jeton 15th century
B-52 Challenge coin (BUF)

 

Another widely collected token type that hasn't been mentioned is Coal Scrip.

Actually Conder was not the first, he was the third, but his book was more comprehensive and it became the standard reference from 1798 till Atkins work in 1890.

Davisson reprinted the book in 1990, 1996 and in a larger size in 2004. The 1990 and 1996 editions each contained an addendum in th book of new varieties that had been discovered since the previous edition. The 2004 had the new varieties discovered since 1996 as a separate page.

Bill does still have copies, but the book is once again out of print. (And Davisson is once again making noises about not doing another reprinting.) Once Bill run out this book will once again be hard to find and even more expensive.

 

Here one form the 1920-30. I like the phone number you had to ask operator milk-24 or white way pure-24

 

Or from what I see you just asked (or dialed as the case may be) for 24. Back then phone numbers were much shorter. I have advertisements from the 1950's for my grandfathers garage and the phone number is just listed as 838. Until about 1995 around here you could still dial anyone in the local exchange by just dialing the last four digits of the phone number. Then they computerized the system and now you have to dial the whole number. One of the reasons it took them so long to get the system upgraded was because they were having to wait for four little old ladies to die. They had the last party line and refused to give it up

 

Conder that was good read ! I can still rember my 1st phone number the mom drill in to my head as I going to kindergarten !!!!! 4921

 

I collect most types of exonumia except for the gambling silver strikes. Here is at least a partial list of types that I collect, at least as best as memory serves while I sit here. This should be a fairly complete list of types of tokens, but you can always set your own parameters for a collection, such as tokens with your surname, your hometown, home state, etc.

My favorites are Civil War tokens and Bryan money (I started an album on my page).
The Conders are an interesting series, and I have a few but do not actively pursue them.

State merchant tokens - from all 50 states
Ingle System Script
Hickey Bros. Cigar Store tokens
Sales tax tokens
Coal company tokens
Lumber company tokens
American & British gaming counters
Real Estate tokens
Explosive Control tokens (related to Coal Co tokens)
Advertising Mirrors
Municipal Trade Currency
Charge Coins
Masonic Pennies
Amusement tokens
Transit tokens
Car Wash tokens
Parking tokens
Hard Times tokens
Prison tokens
Sutler tokens
Military tokens
Prisoner of War money
Encased postage
Early American tokens
Gay 90s tokens
Counterstamps
Love tokens
Hobo nickels
Brothel tokens
Indian and Post Trader tokens
Indian Peace medals
Telephone tokens
U.S. Mint medals
Political tokens
U.S. Patterns
Lucky Coins
Christmas tokens and medals
Calendar tokens
Scouting tokens
Pogs
So Called Dollars
Hard Rubber tokens
Exposition and Fair tokens


Here is my favorite political token, probably displaying some bias due my interest in Civil War tokens

 

To share a few more pics, here are some examples of cwts with broken dies (errors of all kinds are generally very plentiful on tokens).

 

A few more political related - campaign and slavery

 

A few that were a bit odd but struck my fancy.

 

Hanuman token anyone?

I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this Hanuman token? There's a God of Hinduism and I will place a clip of the story. I'm waiting to find one that is similar to this pic. Oh, the God is named Hanuman, hope I spelled that right. There's some on Ebay UK right now but the pics don't look that great, so I'll wait until I see something better.

Just thought I would pass on the story and pic.


God of power and strength
Hanuman is an avatar of Vayu (wind), he takes the form of a vanara (monkey). Hanuman was the cleverest and the most powerful of all the monkeys. He had the ability to fly with the speed of the eagle.
Shortly after his birth he flew to eat the rays of the sun. Indra became angry and threw his "Vajra" (thunderbolt) weapon at Hanuman who was hit on his left knee, and fell on the top of a high mountain unconscious. When Vayu saw this he stopped the wind. This imperiled all of the gods so they all prayed for the wind to blow again. Indra went to meet the unconscious Hanuman, praised him for surviving the stroke of his weapon, and called him "Maruti" or "son of the wind". As a boon Indra said, "You will not be afraid of death, nobody will be able to kill you with any weapon in war." Hanuman became almost invincible. Vayu was pleased and the wind began to blow gently, and life returned to all living creatures.
Rama was ordered by his Guru Vishwamitra, to kill good king Yayati. Yayati went to find Hanuman. When Yayati found him he said to him “I’m Yayati, the king of Kasi. I’m a devotee of Rama. You alone will be able to save me from danger I’m facing now. I entirely depend on you.” Hanuman agreed to save Yayati. When Rama sought Yayati, Hanuman accosted them. He fell at the feet of Rama, “My lord! Please be kind to Yayati. Don’t kill him. He is innocent. Let him go free.” Rama had already strung is Ramaban arrow and could not stop. Hanuman stood in front of Yayati and bared his chest.The arrow pierced his chest and went deep inside and disappeared. But nothing happened to Hanuman.

 

I was meaning to do this .I just haven't got around to doing it.Thanks for the reminder.:smile
OK here it is.Please help me if you have any info on this token..I am curious about the history,etc. It is dated 1959.I got it from Coinman0456 as a bonus with a recent purchase.Thank you coinman!

 

Nice looking token. I have no idea what it would be worth but maybe someone who is from that area will know the scarcity and what the value is. :thumb:

 

I was thinking of soaking this token in xylene to clean it up a bit.would you recommend this?I am concerned it might cause irreparable damage.
The reverse looks like it has a fingerprint or something on it.

 

Yes it may cause some damage so even though you may want to try to clean it, do yourself a favor and don't try it. I came across a similar token on ebay, it looks like a fire dept token.

Here's the item number, 120461179890. If you want you can watch it till the end of sale and see what it goes for. There's all kinds of collectors and someone collects these for sure, especially someone from NY where the firemen saved alot of lives fighting 9/11. hya:

 

You can also get a digital copy for free here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HHQXIAF0

It's also the 1990 reprint.

Ribbit

 

Great, thanks for the info.
I will definitely look into this.

 

I found this on ebay for you folks who like jetons ..http://cgi.ebay.com/Telephone-Token..._203?hash=item3354ead2ea&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14