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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1913414, member: 75105&quot;][ATTACH=full]328099[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This one depicts Bishop Blaise, who was the patron saint of wool combers, he was tortured to death with them. He is holding a bible in one hand and a wool comb in the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse reads&quot; Success to the woolen manufactory&quot;. At first I thought &quot;The Woolen Manufactory&quot; was an actual company, but as it turns out, manufactory is an obsolete word for factory.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse depicts the coat of arms of Exeter, the top reads &quot;Exeter HalfPenny&quot;. I&#039;m not sure what the hat is about.</p><p><br /></p><p>The edge reads &quot;Payable at the Warehouse of Samuel Kingdon&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Samuel Kingdon was an ironmonger (supplier of consumer goods). </p><p><br /></p><p>More on the token here:</p><p><a href="http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_people/kingdonsam.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_people/kingdonsam.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_people/kingdonsam.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The token&#039;s rarity is listed as &quot;common&quot; in the Dalton and Hammer&#039;s book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Exeter is a city in the county of Devonshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the second token. It&#039;s from Norwich, a city in the county of Norfolk. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse depicts a figure of hope, which says &quot;Prosperity to old England&quot;. The reverse depicts a bottle and the words &quot;More Trade and Fewer Taxes&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A variety of this token has the edge as lettered &quot;Richard Dinmore &amp; Son Norwich&quot;, however mine has a plain edge. The plain and lettered edge are listed as common, the milled edge is rare/</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328102[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To anyone who collects world coins, I highly recommend getting into conder tokens. They offer history depictions of then English times, and there are several publications to help catalog them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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