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Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 03/19/2017 8:42 pm This is a genre with which I'm not at all familiar. This duo turned up at a local coin club show today, and I was just too intrigued by them not to pick them up. It seemed to me that they were probably in better condition than that in which you might normally find such. The seller believed the specimen on the right to be a contemporary counterfeit, but couldn't explain cogently just why he thought so. It certainly has a die crack that centrally traverses the entire obverse. Both have edge legends that read, "PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL". I'll be doing some research on these (if nothing else to try and date the one on the left) but in the meantime, I'm all ears here. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff

TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 03/19/2017 9:43 pm These are Conder Tokens. They are old, I find them interesting and have a few myself. https://www.google.com/search?q=19&...ns&*&spf=374 Better yet http://www.coins.calkinsc.com/conder_gallery.html Edited by TNG 03/19/2017 9:49 pm Report this Post to the Staff
yarm Valued Member United States 343 Posts	Posted 03/22/2017 8:25 pm An online verson of Dalton & Hamer, the collector's "bible" for Conder tokens. http://provincialtokencoinage.weebly.com Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 04/08/2017 8:46 pm I did a little research, and found this biography for John Howard (who died in early 1790): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_...on_reformer) I think the reverse displays an engraver's error - it makes much more sense if the word "GOAL" should in fact be "GAOL". Colligo ergo sum Edited by Lucky Cuss 04/08/2017 8:50 pm Report this Post to the Staff
alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 04/09/2017 05:06 am Nope, GOAL was actually the correct contemporary spelling. Report this Post to the Staff
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