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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1914636, member: 66"]Yes I have one, good book to have if you like British tokens. First comprehensive book on token values since 1983.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer with the "Big ancients" was James Beach. Really nice guy. We bought a lot of stuff from his father George Beach before he passed away. Unfortunately James does mostly ancients so we don't do much business with him anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first "made in england" piece is a religious medal, probably a St Nicholas medal. (Note the large figure is striding across the water with what appears to be the christ child on his shoulder.) St Nicholas of Greece was the patron Saint of sailors.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like your 1758 shilling and 1816 six pence. Nice coins and excellent color.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of detail in the Bank of Montreal token, $20 was a really good price on that one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first conder token is from Devonshire England, city of Exeter. The arms on the reverse are those of the city. Exeter was a major woolen producing area and one of the principal products of the city were wool felt hats. the token is D&H 2, and it is common, mintage was about 250K.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second Conder is from the county of Norfolk, city of Norwich. This comes in two varieties D&H 23 and 24 the difference being which letter the figure of Hope is pointing to. This is #23, but you didn't mention what was on the edge so I can;t tell which sub variety it is. These tokens were struck for Robert Dinmore by William Kempson of Birmingham, from dies engraved by Thomas Wyon of the same city. Mintage was a little over 25K. While Dinmore had the tokens struck only a very few had his name on the edge. These were really intended for anonymous circulation so he wouldn't have to redeem them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not at the Chicago International Show. You'll hear half a dozen or more languages being spoken there. This year I heard English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Swedish. And probably some others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Many dealers with this attitude are only interested in dealing with big money collectors, or just doing dealer to dealer business. They never seem to realize that small fry guy today may be big money collector in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 1914636, member: 66"]Yes I have one, good book to have if you like British tokens. First comprehensive book on token values since 1983. The dealer with the "Big ancients" was James Beach. Really nice guy. We bought a lot of stuff from his father George Beach before he passed away. Unfortunately James does mostly ancients so we don't do much business with him anymore. The first "made in england" piece is a religious medal, probably a St Nicholas medal. (Note the large figure is striding across the water with what appears to be the christ child on his shoulder.) St Nicholas of Greece was the patron Saint of sailors. I really like your 1758 shilling and 1816 six pence. Nice coins and excellent color. Lots of detail in the Bank of Montreal token, $20 was a really good price on that one. The first conder token is from Devonshire England, city of Exeter. The arms on the reverse are those of the city. Exeter was a major woolen producing area and one of the principal products of the city were wool felt hats. the token is D&H 2, and it is common, mintage was about 250K. The second Conder is from the county of Norfolk, city of Norwich. This comes in two varieties D&H 23 and 24 the difference being which letter the figure of Hope is pointing to. This is #23, but you didn't mention what was on the edge so I can;t tell which sub variety it is. These tokens were struck for Robert Dinmore by William Kempson of Birmingham, from dies engraved by Thomas Wyon of the same city. Mintage was a little over 25K. While Dinmore had the tokens struck only a very few had his name on the edge. These were really intended for anonymous circulation so he wouldn't have to redeem them. Not at the Chicago International Show. You'll hear half a dozen or more languages being spoken there. This year I heard English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Swedish. And probably some others. Many dealers with this attitude are only interested in dealing with big money collectors, or just doing dealer to dealer business. They never seem to realize that small fry guy today may be big money collector in the future.[/QUOTE]
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