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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 698966, member: 66&quot;]A few might have managed to have gotten here but in general no they did NOT circulate here.&nbsp; The item linked in the first post is an English 18th century century provincial token, commonly known here in the US as a Conder token after James Conder who wrote what was the standard reference on the series from 1798 til the Atkins book on the series in 1890.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is listed from the English county of Warwickshire and was struck for John Wilkinson who was a the leading producer of iron in England at the time. (This is a catalogers error as Wilkinson was actually located in Shropshire.&nbsp; And no this was not the John Wilkinson of Wilkinson Steel, he came a little later.) This one is Warwickshire 356 and is listed as Rare.&nbsp; With the corrosion on the obverse it probably went a little higher than it should have.&nbsp; Wilkinson had many tons of tokens produced in three major types between 1787 and 1792.&nbsp; They were widely accepted all over England and for that reason were also counterfeited.&nbsp; Including the counterfeits there are some 130+ varieties of Wilkinson tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were British coins that did circulate here in the US during the colonial era but those were the regal half pence and the counterfeit regal halfpence, with the counterfeits being made both here and in England.&nbsp; Most of these will be dated from 1770 to 1775 (England struck no copper coinage from 1775 til 1797), although the counterfeits can be found with dates in the late 1770&#039;s and even early 1780&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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