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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 558589, member: 66&quot;]You may not find it as exciting when you learn that they are all Conder tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The new discovery piece was from the County of Shropshire.&nbsp; I found a piece being sold as a Shropshire 13, the diagnostic being periods after the date and one of the inscriptions.&nbsp; It is the only reverse that had that.&nbsp; But the placement of the date and the positioning of the letters didn&#039;t match up.&nbsp; I bought it and confirmed it.&nbsp; It is now listed in the addendum of the standard reference and I and credited with the discovery.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second piece is also from Shropshire.&nbsp; I had been looking for a Shropshire 11 for many years and was never able to find one.&nbsp; Every time I found one listed or bought one off a price list it always turned out to be misattibuted.&nbsp; After returning my sixth misattributed piece to a specialist dealer I decided to send along pictures of one and point out the diaognostics.&nbsp; So I turned to the collection of a very advanced collector who had one an. . . . His wasn&#039;t an 11 either.&nbsp; But it wasn&#039;t anything else either.&nbsp; I had turned up a new variety in someone else&#039;s collection.&nbsp; Well we got that confirmed (11bis) but I started asking all the long time collectors and experts I could find if they had ever seen a Shropshire 11 that matched the diagnostics in the book and the answers all came back the same No they hadn&#039;t and they didn&#039;t know anyone else that had either.&nbsp; I was told that it was an error in the book and that it didn&#039;t exist.&nbsp; Well in Feb of 2008 I found a shropshire piece on eBay that seemed to match the piece I had discovered in the other fellows collection.&nbsp; It was a bad picture and I couldn&#039;t tell for sure but I bought it anyway.&nbsp; when it arrived I checked it out and it was not the 11bis I had hoped it was, but instead it turned out to be a Shropshire 11 that matched the descriptions in the book!&nbsp; A coin everyone said did not exist.&nbsp; I believe I currently have the only confirmed Shropshire 11.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other three are a litle more anticlimatic.&nbsp; The first was a piece for Warwickshire, 340bis listd as unique at the time.&nbsp; I was attribuing tokens on ebay checking to see if I could find one I could use and&nbsp; found it listed just as Warwickshire and no attribution from a seller in England.&nbsp; Cost me about $18, and it is the finer of the two known pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>The second was from Inverness in Scotland.&nbsp; A frind of mine had recently discovered a new variety from there and had provided me with pictures.&nbsp; As I lookedthrough eBay I saw several Inverness pieces being sold so I checked them out and one of them turned out to be one of the new discovery.&nbsp; The Discovery piece was a Fine 15, my new find was an AU-50.&nbsp; Made for a nice confirmation piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third one was last summer.&nbsp; A seller hade a token identified as a Middlesex 949, a common token but one I don&#039;t have so I double checked the attribution and it was wrong. It was a Middlesex 951 which was listed as an R-7 coin (Sheldon rarity scale).&nbsp; I won it and was quite pleased with it but when I tried to trace anything about it I learned that only one piece has been seen in something like thirty years.&nbsp; That coin and mine are about equal in sharpness, but the other one has a nasty heavy scratch across the obv.&nbsp; Mine is problem free.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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