Let's see your Conder Tokens

The Middlesex #295 are quite commonly available. I looked on the last list (4/5/10) sent out by Bill McKivor and he was offering "much red UNC, superb, $110"

 

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Thanks farthing for the help.

 

Duke - your pics ain't bad. Shoot, I pay for mine to be done by Todd Pollock so what you're doing is free and is just fine. Post away! :smile

 

The Lunar Men

That's right... Duke's photos are really nice. He just needs more Conder Tokens.

In the meantime, I should mention that I have learned a lot from re-shooting tokens as time goes by, Usually the results improve. Rome was not built in a day.

Here's my image of the day, and this is the perfect thread for it. The children and others are observing an orrery, not a token. I am reading this book and it is very good. : )






Here's a larger view of the book's jacket...




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My pictures are just scans. My camera is broke and so am I
When I get a job I'll work on both a camera and my Conders.
lol

 

Larry, that's a neat demonstration of the token's reflective surface. You're so creative!

 

Yep it was and it's a lot nicer then the same Conder I have too.

 

South Sea Company

In this age of bubbles, it's worth recognizing one of the all time greats,
the South Sea Bubble, memorialized on this colorful Conder token.

 

Wow Yarm...that's a beautiful Skidmore token with awesome color. :bigeyes:
Here is a Scottish Conder Token.

 

Yes, it's a nice UNC or very, very close. : )

These are great pics; I like the obvious luster.

Though a token struck for a Scottish concern, it was made by Matthew Boulton at the Soho Mint near Birmingham, England. It's engraver was Rambert Dumarest, from France, who worked at Soho for a time.

I have read that nothing is known about the issuer, Gilbert Shearer.


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This just arrived in today's post - Hampshire Gosport DH #2, ex: Robbie Brown sale by DNW

 

Four more Gloucestershire Badminton Conders

Here are four more of the Gloucestershire Conders. Three are EF's and the King George III token is UNC.














These were the last Badminton examples available from my primary dealer. All are rather scarce. : )

 

I don't collect these tokens but there are many interesting examples in this thread. I do have one at the moment, which is part of a large collection I am attributing. I liberated it from a large board where it had been glued. I understand that it is from about 1795 and there are several varieties. The obverse design was copied for anti-slavery tokens in the US during the 'Hard Times' years. The edge is lettered 'PAYABLE AT LIVERPOOL LONDON OR BRISTOL'.

 

Your token is catalogued by Dalton & Hamer as Middlesex Political and Social Series #1039b, a relatively common version of the Slave halfpenny sized tokens.

Very nice looking token!

 

Thanks much for the concise attribution!

 

And Now, For Something Ugly......

 

Very nice medalet Catbert! :bow:

One of these days I will buy one from this part of the National Series.

 

Heslop's, Middlesex DH 336b • Contortionist & Monkey

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Here's a token, Heslop's, Middlesex DH 336b • Contortionist & Monkey, that arrived recently.

The obverse shows a wonderful strike, the reverse is a tad weak at the center, which is not unusual.
The variation in color, accentuated by these photos, is unfortunate. In hand, this token is beautiful.
This obverse, in this condition, is what I was after, but I do like the fact that Mr. Heslop sold coins in his shop. : )

The contortionist was the stout Joseph Clark. His trained monkey is not named in any literature I have yet seen,
though I am sure he had a name.





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To piggyback off Larry's post. Issued by London coin dealer William Till in the 19th century (DH estimates around 1840. Can't recall where at the moment but have seen other sources that suggest a later date...believe as late as 1860.) Suppose it is then not a true "Conder token" but certainly a closely related creation.

 

No shortage of tokens in D&H made after the Conder era.
Here's Buckinghamshire 24 also by Till, sold to me without
mention of it's shady past. But I'm keeping it anyway.