I just found a Condor Token with Kent on it. This intrigued me as my name is Kent as well as my son and grandson. I would like to know if anyone here that collects Condors can tell me how many different examples have Kent on the actual token not just from the region. (I guess it's the region of Kent England). I don't plan on becoming an all out Condor collector so I probably want spend the money on books to study them I'm only interested in the ones with Kent on the coin. Thanks for any help.
I have a conder token, I am not too familar with them but I do know that they were minted in place of normal cents because for some reason the government did not want normal cents and half cents to be minted.
THIS is a Conder. (And you can get the Dalton & Hamer reference for them for free here.) THIS is a Condor.
Technically that would be pennies and halfpennies, to be semantically correct (if annoyingly nitpicky). Cents are a decimal coinage (1/100 units) , which the English pennies of the time were not. (However, to be confusing, the modern British "pennies" since decimalization in 1970 actually are cents, since there are 100 of them to the pound.)
WooHoo! LordM, that's my Conder, that I photographed for the Wikipedia page! He's now in an NGC MS63RB holder. -Brandon
Here's the site for a free version of Dalton & Hamer's text on Conder tokens. You'll find each of the tokens from Kent in there. http://provincialtokencoinage.weebly.com
