The Conder Token Thread

@BenByfield: Different angle howso? Those images are straight on. I don't like to image coins/medals/tokens with axial or tilted methods, as it rarely looks like that at 95% of the viewed angles. The penny has lots of blues and roses which I think show up pretty well.

Here is one of my favorite tokens. It was struck in a quantity of possibly 300-400 pieces in early 1795 by Boulton at the SOHO Shop. It is listed in Dalton & Hamer as Middlesex-342/Ibberson's.

Hi two tokens that I have,

Great thread. I love the designs on these. Here are the only two I currently own. I don't know too much about them, just liked the designs.

Great stuff. I have been down sick for a while, but now I'm back. Here are three more from my collection.

Just a clarification, James Conder was not the first person to catalog the British trade tokens of the late 18th century. Charles Pye issued his first index in 1795, with a later (more well known) edition in 1801. Samuel Birchall issued his listing/index in 1796. Conder's listing didn't come around until 1798, but it had an advantage over the two other works in that it included many drawings of token designs. It was also the basis of the Dalton & Hamer work in the 1910s. Of note, the term "Conder token" is almost exclusively used by USA collectors. Most UK collectors refer to them as 18th Century "tradesmen tokens" or "provincial tokens".

This information is all summarized in the Wikipedia article on Conder Tokens, which I wrote 95%+ of last summer.

Nice to see some more tokens.

Ben, nice find (I think you got a real bargain).
BRG, Harry, Yarm, kudos for both your tokens & photos!

There's quite a bit going on with this Sussex halfpenny beyond the whimsical view of the storming of the Bastille. In addition to a die crack and scratch,
there's multiple die clashing as well as mismatched die sizes. The area around the edge on the reverse suggests the use of a very rough (filed?) planchet.