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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 12070, member: 57463&quot;]This, and your &quot;Liverpool Halfpenny&quot; are merchant tokens.&nbsp; Properly called &quot;Provincial Tokens&quot; we call them &quot;Conders&quot; after James Conder, one of the many merchants who contracted for their production and who created the first collector catalog of them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can find the Conder Collectors online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.conderclub.homestead.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.conderclub.homestead.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.conderclub.homestead.com</a></p><p>thanks to a recent COIN WORLD article:</p><p><a href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/032204/BW_0322.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinworld.com/news/032204/BW_0322.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinworld.com/news/032204/BW_0322.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And they are popular here on COIN TALK!</p><p>See &quot;Coin from 1790&quot; in this section.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you can find out even more than you cared to from this Chicago Coin Club Page about Conders:</p><p><a href="http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/emt.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/emt.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/emt.html</a></p><p>The author, Richard Doty, is a curator at the Smithsonian Institute.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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