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Message:: [QUOTE="Larry Moran, post: 1041022, member: 4580"]1787-1797 It's a very interesting piece, no question.  : ) I did not find this issue listed in Dalton & Hamer.While it is a British Provincial Token of the 18th Century, it's not actually a Conder Token, imho.It is possible that it was catalogued by James Conder, but not D&H.  : )I wish I had access to Conder's publications, somehow. The first Conder Tokens were produced on Anglesey Island in North Wales in 1787.There are Montrose Conders, but they are from Scotland. I personally try to stick to tokens from 1787 to 1797. Britain resumed regal copper coinagewhich was struck by Matthew Boulton at Soho Mint near Birmingham in 1797.  Tokens became illicitby about 1797 in London and as late as 1804 in the far reaches of northern Scotland I've read. I think most manufacturers stopped striking tokens soon after regal coinage came back into vogue, of honest weight and of pure copper.  But a diesinker or manufacturer might want to continueaccepting orders for a time, even though illegal.  I don't have the exact dates they became illegal to passin various areas.[/QUOTE]