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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1662407, member: 12789&quot;]Inasmuch as the Crown neglected coinage in America, they did in Britain also.&nbsp; One of the terms of the Act of Union in 1707 was that a mint in Edinburgh be maintained - and well it was until 1817.&nbsp; But coinage from Edinburgh stopped in 1709, but the mintmaster as well as assistance stayed on pay until 1817.&nbsp; No mention was made as to what they accomplished.&nbsp; The neglect from the lack of continuing coinage meant that older Scottish coins continued to circulate along with the skint English and other foreign coins until the 1760s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Crown was decidedly negligent to minor coinage from the mid 1660s until early in the 19th century with the great recoinage.&nbsp; That is why there are so many tokens from that era, because the government could have cared the less about minor coinage.&nbsp; By the early 19th century counterfeits became so common and the coinage so chaotic that the Crown had no choice but to mint coins in huge numbers to drive out the Conder tokens and counterfeits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conders may have circulated in small numbers in America.&nbsp; 17th century merchants and municipal tokens have been found in archaeological digs in the Middle Colonies, suggesting that they perhaps circulated too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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