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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2071989, member: 66&quot;]Started dabbling in them in 1992, just a one per county collection.&nbsp; Got serious in 1997 with the GTT collection.&nbsp; Wish I had gotten serious earlier.&nbsp; When I got serious you could buy common Conders in Unc condition for $20 each.&nbsp; Red pieces for about $35&nbsp; Proofs were available in the $50 to $75 range.&nbsp; Today a typical common Unc will cost $150 or so.&nbsp; AU&#039;s or XF&#039;s are still pretty affordable though even for the scarcer ones.&nbsp; Way back when I first started collecting I knew about Conders but didn&#039;t do anything with them because I couldn&#039;t afford the book.&nbsp; Back then a D&amp;H reprint was around $100 and the tokens in Unc were $2, $3 for MS red ones.&nbsp; And what was I buying?&nbsp; Circulated Jefferson nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I have even more of them.&nbsp; As it became difficult to find pieces for my main two collections I started picking up pieces that weren&#039;t part of collection but which I just didn&#039;t have.&nbsp; Currently overall I have about 950 different pieces and about 150 duplicates.&nbsp; Another sideline set I&#039;ve been doing is the Lady Godiva set.&nbsp; I have all of the Genuine Lady Godiva&#039;s and all but two of the contemporary counterfeit Lady Godiva&#039;s.&nbsp; And of course to go with that I have a Peeping Tom.&nbsp; That&#039;s the tough one.&nbsp; It was a private token and they only made 24 of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the neat things about them is there are still discoveries to be made.&nbsp; So far I have turned up three or four unlisted edge varieties and three previously unknown dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just picked this up yesterday on Ma Shops</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.ma-shops.com/loebbers/pic/111019042bz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://img.ma-shops.com/loebbers/pic/111019042bz.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These normally come in copper but they are known in tin, but the interesting thing is neither the obv or the reverse die for this piece is listed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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