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daltonista
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United States
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 Posted 05/20/2025 7:23 pm
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Nice tokens, guys! Here's one from the back of the book, under Merchant Tokens, a Devins & Bolton countermarked Montreal Bouquet Sou. This is CH MT-2B2, the commonest of the eight major varieties identified in Charlton.
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| Post Your Coins With Horses
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daltonista
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Posted 05/20/2025 6:29 pm
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Struck in 1813 in Birmingham, England, but known to have circulated more widely in Canada, this "Cossack Penny" token commemorated Field Marshal Wellington's victories during the 1812 campaigns against France during the Peninsular War. I was fortunately able to find this splendid example at a Spink auction five or six years ago.
Breton 985, Charlton WE-13A, Withers 1505, 34mm, 18.3g, MS-63.
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| Post Your Coins With Coats Of Arms, Shields, Crests, Crowns, Etc.
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daltonista
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Posted 05/20/2025 5:52 pm
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The remarkably flamboyant coat of arms depicted on this florin-sized two-shilling token belong to the Duke of Norfolk, where Attleborough is located. The issuer was Wm. Parsons & Sons, a major local grocer.
The supporters are certainly exhibiting an interesting laid-back attitude...maybe they'd gotten into the gummies?
Attleborough, Norfolk, Two Shillings, 1811, Dalton 4, RR and "virtually as struck."
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| Ex-Cokayne, Anybody? Post Your Own, Too! (Of Particular Interest To Collectors Of British Tokens.)
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daltonista
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United States
867 Posts |
Posted 05/16/2025 8:34 pm
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Hi, Spence, and thanks for asking!
That would be the penny issued in 1813 by William Baker, a lace and hosiery manufacturer from St. Marysgate in Notts.
Withers 935m, Davis 15, 34mm, 20.6g, dies  .
Upon review, it appears this ticket's already been attributed -- right here, last October, by first4 and Tom Goodheart -- to A.H. Baldwin (1858-1936) the founder of A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd. I guess that explains why it's been sitting on my desk for the last six months!
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| Ex-Cokayne, Anybody? Post Your Own, Too! (Of Particular Interest To Collectors Of British Tokens.)
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daltonista
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United States
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Posted 05/16/2025 7:16 pm
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Just a few tickets from my collection of about fifty overall, which includes thirty or so from the collections of Francis Cokayne.
In the group shot, the one at top right dates to Sotheby's Robinson sale in 1904. Two are from the Norman sale eight months later, also by Sotheby's, and one from the 1911 Davis sale at Glendening's. (That's W.J. Davis, who in 1904 published the first major catalog on the series I collect.) The barely legible flip side of the first ticket, at the upper left, indicates a 1901 private treaty purchase.
Interestingly, I've been able to locate and download all three of the auction catalogs represented here from the Newman Numismatic Portal. I imagine that pretty soon I'll have memories of attending those sales with Francis! 
As for this one, can anyone tell me whose it was? I have a couple in this hand but no clue as to what collection they're from. Thanks in advance!
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| Seeking Help On British Museum Electrotypes - But Tokens, Not Ancients.
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daltonista
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United States
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Posted 05/14/2025 7:29 pm
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 This is my unusual British Museum electrotype of the "excessively rare" halfpenny token from Dawley in Shropshire, Britain, that was issued in 1811 by Gilbert Gilpin, a local innovator and industrialist.
Gilpin's chief contribution to the Industrial Revolution was his invention of flexible metal chain that eliminated the reliance on rope in heavy equipment such as cranes. Indeed, his token itself advertised that he "Sells chains for pits cranes &c of best horse-nail iron at 5d per lb."
Examples of the token itself show up on the market only about once every 5-10 years, most recently in October 2018, when a nice unc brought £2,200 (before premiums) in a Dix Noonan Webb auction.
As for my specimen, in 2017 I was fortunately able to acquire a group of about three dozen tokens from the last tranche of Francis Cokayne's 19th-century collection to be released from Baldwin's Basement, where they'd been in storage since he passed away in 1945...and among them was this electrotype reproduction of the coveted Gilpin halfpenny.
Those of you who have collected British tokens may recognize Cokayne's ticket, which attributes the token as "An electrotype of Dawley Halfpenny from BM. specimen" -- referring to the British Museum, we can safely conjecture. The flip side addresses Cokayne's source, as follows: "[bought at] Glendening's Davis sale 21/7/20 Lot 75 25 pieces 50/-."
 The "Davis" whose tokens Mr. Cokayne won at auction on that day was William J. Davis, the gentleman who assembled the first authoritative (and exhaustive!) catalog of Britain's early 19th-century tokens, published in 1904 and on every serious Regency Period token collector's shelf to this day. Here's the brief mention given to my "token" in that sale's catalog, which I was able to download as a PDF from the Newman Numismatic Portal:
 Much has been written about the electrotypes that emerged from the British Museum from roughly 1858 to 1934, and specimens of the excellent Robert Ready exhibits of ancients and sets of European historical medals are seen regularly at auction. All are considered collectible in their own right.
What I have NOT been able to find is any listing of Conders or other tokens that were electrotyped there -- or even any mention of their existence. We know that electrotypes could be special-ordered from the British Museum during the years when Davis was actively studying and accumulating British tokens; indeed, the Museum made them available at a halfcrown each.
My question now is whether anyone else here has seen -- or owns -- other electrotyped tokens that can be traced back to the British Museum?
Many thanks in advance for helping me learn whether there are others out there! 
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| Show Us Yer Gorgeous Georges
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daltonista
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United States
867 Posts |
Posted 05/03/2025 12:58 pm
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Very nice, Dearborn! Reminds me of a collector I met years ago who specialized in non-round coins.
If it was circular, he wanted nothing to do with it.
And thank you all for your kind words about my little thruppence posted several weeks ago! |
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