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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1914326, member: 29751&quot;]Tim, you have Google, right?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I spent about a month writing the Wikipedia article on Conder tokens last summer (2013).&nbsp; <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conder_Token" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conder_Token" rel="nofollow">Read it here</a>.</b>&nbsp; It should answer most of your questions.&nbsp; If you want more detail, then pick up some of the books referenced in the Wikipedia article.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The George Selgin book is particularly interesting, and tells all of the back story of why the tokens came about, their general use, and why they went away.&nbsp; (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Money-Birmingham-Beginnings-1775-1821/dp/1598130439/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Money-Birmingham-Beginnings-1775-1821/dp/1598130439/" rel="nofollow">Selgin, George. <i>Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821</i>.</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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