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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 1312173, member: 4580&quot;]<b>More Birmingham Workhouse history</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s more history of the Birmingham Workhouse.</p><p><br /></p><p>NOTE: There are images of a token dated in 1811,<u> but that would not be a Conder Token.</u></p><p>Conder Tokens were first struck in 1787 and mostly stopped by 1796,</p><p>though some were struck as late as 1802, though they were illegal by then for coinage purposes</p><p>since new regal coinage was struck in 1797 in one penny and two penny denominations at the Soho Mint.</p><p>Boulton and Watt produced that coinage using their steam power.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" rel="nofollow">http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/" rel="nofollow">I</a>&#039;ve ordered two more tokens, a bright gilt Birm 1 and a copper Birm 63.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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