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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4498342, member: 10461&quot;]There were hundreds if not <i>thousands</i> of varieties of provincial copper tokens in Britain in the late 1700s and early 1800s, with a truly mind-boggling array of themes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some were political, whimsical, or even scandalous.&nbsp; Many- indeed, <i>most</i>- were advertisements.&nbsp; There were buildings, birds, animals, ships, people, shoes, and almost everything imaginable in their world shown on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were quite popular with upper-class collectors in their own time, which is why so many beautifully preserved examples survive for us now, over two centuries later.&nbsp; Many have surviving mint red and prooflike surfaces.&nbsp; Many more circulated and lived a hard life in commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course they still have a big following among collectors today.&nbsp; The &quot;<a href="http://www.moneta-coins.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2319&amp;title=the-end-of-pain&amp;cat=664" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.moneta-coins.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2319&amp;title=the-end-of-pain&amp;cat=664" rel="nofollow">gallows</a>&quot; types are especially popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dalton &amp; Hamer is the standard reference for these so-called &quot;<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conder_token" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conder_token" rel="nofollow">Conder tokens</a>&quot;.&nbsp; It is a reference that is so old that it&#039;s out of copyright now, and as such, is <a href="http://provincialtokencoinage.weebly.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://provincialtokencoinage.weebly.com" rel="nofollow">available for free online</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, Queen Elizabeth sure knew how to rock a high lace collar, didn&#039;t she?&nbsp; Even <i>dudes</i> were wearing huge, ruffled, lacy collars at the time, so the Queen&#039;s <i>had</i> to be the biggest in the room, now, didn&#039;t it?&nbsp; Of <i>course</i> it did.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to a cage match pitting ol&#039; Lizzie versus that frilled dinosaur from <i>Jurassic Park</i>, I&#039;m not sure who I&#039;d bet on. It would be a pretty tough contest.&nbsp; Lizzie versus Lizard?&nbsp; Don&#039;t count Her Majesty out!&nbsp; (Just ask those Spanish Armada blokes how <i>they</i> fared against her.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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