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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8171598, member: 66&quot;]The 1792&#039;s are the genuine tokens, the 93&#039;s, 94&#039;s and 95&#039;s are all contemporary counterfeits.&nbsp; In 1792 the municipality of Coventry released a large number of the tokens to ease a serious coin shortage.&nbsp; They were well accepted and popular so the counterfeiters got into the act and released the same design in 1793, but the city DIDN&#039;T issue any more tokens so all the post 92&#039;s are counterfeits or fantasies.&nbsp; The city also only issued the elephant and castle reverse (it was the arms of the city)&nbsp; I have all of the genuine 1792 varieties and all but 1 of the 1793 counterfeit varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was also an issue by Thomas Sharpe of Coventry that shows The house Peeping tom watched from and it has his figure in the upstairs window.&nbsp; I have one of those as well.&nbsp; (Not an easy token to get, the mintage was only 24) I have thought about doing a exhibit with the story and then having the Peeping Tom token in the center with all the 1792 Lady Godiva around it, and all the 1793 Lady Godivas around those.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your 1795 token is D&amp;H 251</p><p><br /></p><p>Nyatii&#039;s is D&amp;H 237</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Collector&#039;s is D&amp;H 232</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 7 varieties of genuine 1792&#039;s, 8 varieties of counterfeit 1793 with the elephant and castle design and 1 with the Coventry Cross design.&nbsp; There are 3 1794 counterfeits all with the Coventry Cross, and 3 1795 counterfeits, one with Elephant and Castle, one with Coventry Cross, and one fantasy with the arms of the Associated Irish Mine Company[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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