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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mickey-startup, post: 1018209, member: 27356&quot;]<a href="http://www.thecoppercorner.com/history/18thC_hist.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thecoppercorner.com/history/18thC_hist.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecoppercorner.com/history/18thC_hist.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial"> James Conder was a linen draper in Tavern Street, Ipswich, Suffolk. He circulated a halfpenny token in 1794 bearing the town&#039;s market cross on the obverse, his name and business on the reverse. Kempson of Birmingham struck the piece, and it is fairly common. James Conder was an ardent collector of the tokens being issued all around him. In 1798, he produced a book on the subject, called An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens, and Medalets Issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies. The book proved popular with other collectors, and it remained the standard work on the subject for nearly a century. And to this day, many American and British collectors refer to these pieces as &quot;Conder&quot; tokens.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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