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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 1879758, member: 4580&quot;]Although the Druid tokens were originally designed to be spent in the shops of the Parys and Mona mining companies, they were soon being spent all over Wales and England.&nbsp; It was not difficult to accept about one ounce of the world&#039;s finest copper, especially since the tokens featured the popular Druid on their obverses.</p><p><br /></p><p>The intrinsic value and the beauty of the tokens heralded widespread minting and circulation of Conder Tokens which, next to the steam engine, were probably responsible for the astounding success of the First Industrial Revolution.&nbsp; They had replaced regal coinage which had been counterfeited, shaved down and altered through the years.&nbsp; It has been estimated that 75-95% of all small coinage was counterfeit when Conder Tokens were first produced. Their acceptance was inevitable.</p><p><br /></p><p>With folks moving from farms to towns to work in many businesses, it would be impractical to pay them with a chicken or a pig anymore. Conder Tokens made spendable wealth available to the common man.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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