The Conder Token Thread

chrsmat71, nice tokens!

Without knowing how much digging you've done into the 19th-century pieces, I'll just point out that your Bath Penny is known among specialists (ahem, like me ) as Withers 15. There are three recorded varieties, depending on the combination of edge graining and die rotation, so you'll have to let us know back here which you've managed to acquire:

W15: edge /////, dies (Common)
W15a: edge /////, dies (Very Common)
W15b: edge \\\\\, dies (RRR = extremely rare)

At the time this token circulated, Samuel Whitchurch was into metals and William Dore handled textiles, both in fabrication and sales at the local level. They probably partnered up on issuing this token after getting to know one another as sponsors of a private boys school, but no one knows for sure what brought them together. Interestingly, they released three silver tokens as well, all in the then-unheard-of four shillings denomination, issued nowhere else during the Regency Period and not seen again until Victoria's double florins appeared in 1887 for her Jubilee.

Here's one of my Bath specimens, Dalton Somersetshire15 (RR):

Thanks again JB and thanks for the info ttkoo and daltonista! I'm not at all a specialist, I had two blank pages in my coin album and just decided to fill them with Conder type tokens a few years ago. Just such huge interesting variety and lost of cool art on them.

That silver Bath token is very nice, I picked up my first silver token. Looks like that collection my stray out of it's original two pages in the album!

My Bath token is 15a, had to get it out and look at it but added that to my coin info!