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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4983302, member: 110350&quot;]I didn&#039;t know that you collect Conder tokens, [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER]. That&#039;s a very nice one. Complete with a shockingly risque obverse. Pro Bono Publico indeed!</p><p><br /></p><p>Among what remains of my British historical medal collection, I have a very small number of so-called Conder tokens myself. Including this Pidcock farthing token, from about 1800, with an elephant on the obverse and a cockatoo on the reverse. These tokens were issued depicting all sorts of different animals, to advertise Pidcock&#039;s Royal Menagerie in London.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197272[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197273[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>See P. &amp; B. Withers, <i>The Token Book: British Tokens of the 17th 18th and 19th Centuries and their Values</i> (2010), No. 1067 at p. 306.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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