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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 927291, member: 16948&quot;]Here is the latest group of Conder tokens I recently picked up and had Todd photograph. Many of them have very interesting and funny stories behind the design on the token. Here are some of them....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This first Conder token shows a pig trampling on a crown, mitre, and coat of Arms with speech on a label coming from the pig&#039;s mouth saying &quot;Pig&#039;s Meat Published by T. Spence London.&quot; &quot;Pig&#039;s Meat&quot; was the title of Spence&#039;s weekly periodical from 1793 to 1795. The pig token represents the swinish multitude trampling upon ecclesiastical, royal, and aristocratic emblems for which he had no respect.</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This next one shows the pig trampling on a crown, sceptre, and crosier with an irradiated Cap of Liberty on his back and represents the people of England trampling on the State, Monarchy, and the Church.</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The donkey on this Conder represents the patient and willing British public being loaded first with rents and then with the bigger insult of taxes (which were first levied in 1799 shortly after the striking of this die). The sight of overladen donkeys was a common sight in Spence&#039;s day and would have made an impact on the viewer.</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This next Conder is pretty scarce and is one I&#039;ve shown before, but I think it has one of the most interesting stories. It shows a repulsive monster with a human head, wings, and a forked tail flying and carrying a flag displaying a royal crown on an ermine field with a Cap of Liberty on the staff. Three of her brood suckle while a fourth flies ahead carrying a sword in one hand and a lighted toch in the other. One of the feeding young holds a label inscribed &quot;Faction.&quot; On the reverse is a snake among long grass in under long rays of the sun and the legend says &quot;Nourished to Torment&quot; with a date of July 14, 1791.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On July 14, 1791, a party of gentlemen assembled at the Royal Hotel in Birmingham to celebrate the second anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in Paris. A mob encouraged by supporters of the government used this event to begin a series of riots which lasted for three days and was eventually quelled by the militia. Many of the rioters lost their lives.</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/fun1-10/web/Images/11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>J. Pidcock was the proprietor of the Exeter &#039;Change Menagerie and importer of foreign animals. The business later passed to Gilbert Pidcock, and the tickets issued by both men were trade tickets advertising the menagerie and passed for small change in circulation. The two-headed heifer was a live exhibit and an advertisement referring to it appeared in the 29th January 1791 edition of the London Chronicle: &quot;Now exhibiting at the Lyceum Strand. The surprising Heifer with two heads. This very remarkable creature has two Heads, Four Horns, Four Ears, Four Nostrils, through each of which it breathes. This truly wonderful Curiosity is the only one of the kind in Europe; and what is more astonishing, it takes its Sustenance with both mouths at the same time, to the admiration of the Faculty, and the Beholders in general; and it also the received opinion of John Hunter, Esq., Professor of Anatomy, that it has two hearts. One of the Heads, together with the Horns, represents that of a bull, and the other a Cow. The height of the animal is thirteen hands, and each Horn measures twenty-five inches long. Admittance One Shilling. N.B.- Most money given for all sorts of foreign Beasts and Birds, if alive, by G. Pidcock. A capital collection of Wild Beasts, with waggon, horses, &amp;c, to be sold. Enquire as above&quot;. </p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/10.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">The story of Southampton’s Sir Bevois </font>is that he was the son of Sir Guy, Earl of Hampton. His mother was the daughter of the King of Scotland whom Sir Guy had married in his declining years. She arranges for the murder of her husband by her lover – who she later marries – and the sale of her own son into slavery. (Strains of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’) According to one version of the romance; as a child Bevois was strong in will as well as arm. The “History of Hampshire Div 6” says that when he was 7 years old he was supposed to “have knocked down the palace porter and then cudgeled his own stepfather almost to death”. The merchants who bought Bevois eventually gave or sold him to Ermyn, King of Armenia, and it is whilst under his patronage that most of the stories of his exploits occur. Bevois had a magic sword called Mortglay, and an equally magical horse called Hirondelle. (The Swallow) As a result of one of his adventures he also acquired the services of a page and squire, the treacherous giant Ascupart. Bevois fought with the giant Ascapart on the sea-shore near the town, and Ascapart struck at him with his club, but missing his blow, the club stuck fast in the mud, and that while he was pulling to get it out, Bevois despatched him with his sword. </p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/11.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here are a few more new Conders, but I don&#039;t yet have their stories</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This one depicts a coining press.</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/13.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/6-15-10/Images/7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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