Let's see your Conder Tokens

Conder Token • Middlesex DH-336b • R. Heslop, Curiosity and Coin Dealer
Near Gem or Gem Red-Brown uncirculated halfpenny Conder token from London. Semi-prooflike.

Edge: plain. Not dated, circa 1795.

Token of Robert Heslop, 18th century curiosity dealer.

Obverse depicts famed posture master (contortionist) Joseph Clark performing anticsalongside a monkey doing the same.

There is a planchet flaw which is almost straight and runs from 10:00 to about 12:00 on the obverse.

 

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Great token Larry!

 

DH-1061 • Orchard's, Grocer • farthing

Plain Edge. Gem Uncirculated.

 

I collect but none of mine are in mint state. I love collecting them just the same. I'll try to post a few more of my favorites when I get a chance.


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Here my only one.

 

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1796 Conder Token, England, Middlesex DH 321 • Hancock Umbrellas and Coins

Here's a new arrival. John Hancock was an umbrella maker and coin dealer in London.

Near Gem Uncirculated, prooflike. Rated Scarce.

Plain Edge. Obverse cud extends from 6:30 -7:00.





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Some beautiful Conders guys .

 

Beautiful token !!! Here one I have my eye on. It's MS 64Rb


It's price is under. 200.00 too.

 

Thanks Bro!
MS64 Rb is only 179.00 and MS64 Rb population under a hundred a full Red one is semi rare in any grade .

 

Conder Token, Sussex DH-6

Prooflike AU-58. Very attractive. Plain edge. Small planchet clip shows on both sides.

Obverse: An officer, holding a sword, and behind a distant view of a camp. BRIGHTON.

Reverse: View of Bastille and a mounted officer instructing gunners to fire.
Two cannonballs in the air and several on ground. HALFPENNY.

Spence described the reverse as an attack on the Bastille but the troops are British
and the building unlike the French prison destroyed by the Paris mob July 14, 1789.

 

Yorkshire Fountains Abbey D&H #2 - it was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1132. Purchased last month from NEN.

 

St. Peter's Cathedral penny token (Gloucester 21) engraved by Jacobs for
Thomas Gorton. The token is brown head-on with a bit of color and flash when tilted
to the light.

 

c. 1795 Conder Token, Middlesex DH-708, Thomas Spence

Edge reads: SPENCE X DEALER X IN X COINS X LONDON X

Gem Uncirculated, prooflike.

Rated: Fairly Common.

The Bridewell Boys were given a basic education (in 1675 a school master was appointed to teach them reading and writing),and, depending on the arts master to whom they were apprenticed, they were taught one of a number of trades, including weaving, shoemaking and glovemaking.

Source: http://www.londonlives.org/static/Bridewell.jsp






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Another beauty Larry .

 

To quote George Tekei, Oh My!

 

A few newps for me.

 

Nice token!

 

My latest - from the Davisson's E-Auction that finished earlier this week. Middlesex Spence D&H 804c, graded 62BN by PCGS. I can cross another Spence die off the list, my first Odd Fellows halfpenny.

 

I was the underbidder!