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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 765295, member: 15445&quot;]Here is one of the few Conder tokens from my collection.&nbsp; Conder101 provided the following description:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>City of Norwich in the county of Norfolk England Dalton and Hamer #14, a, b, or c Depending on the edge inscription. It is a Genuine Trade Token issued by N Bolingbroke who was a Haberdasher or a dealer in mens clothing. The dies were engraved by Thomas Wyon Sr of Birmingham in Warwickshire. Thomas was a member of the extensive Wyon family of artists and engravers. The tokens were manufactured by Peter Kempson, also of Birmingham who was a major producer of tokens for many people. A total of one and a half tons of tokens were produced or 155,000 tokens comprising three different die varieties (14, 15, and 16) all of which are of roughly equal rarity so you can estimate a mintage of roughly 50,000 tokens or 104 British pounds face value. (Which cost him 72 pounds)</p><p><br /></p><p>The D&amp;H 14 has an edge inscription of PAYABLE AT N BOLINGBROKES HABERDASHER &amp;C NORWICH .X. This token is common.</p><p><br /></p><p>14a edge says PAYABLE AT P DECKS POST OFFICE BURY (Bury was in Suffolk)</p><p>14b edge says IOHN HARVEY OF NORWICH (the use of I for J was common on Conder tokens.)</p><p>14c edge is plain.</p><p>All three of these subvarieties are extremely rare. The Decks and Harvey edges are from planchets produced for two other clients of Kempson&#039;s As mentioned P Deck rana post office in Suffolk county, and John Harvey was a weaver and maker of cloth in Norwich. It is possible that some of Harveys cloth was used to make the clothing that Bolingbroke sold.</p><p><br /></p><p>....The castle and lion is the coat of arms for the city of Norwich, while the shield and batons on the reverse is the arms of the county of Norfolk. </p><p><br /></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t50454/#ixzz0aG5coTGb" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t50454/#ixzz0aG5coTGb">http://www.cointalk.com/t50454/#ixzz0aG5coTGb</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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