Anyone recognize it and maybe shed so light on value and history? For a coin of it's age, it's in great condition, needless to say it's the oldest one in his collection!
Posted 08/24/2008 12:49 pm
In that grade I'd say maybe worth around £10. These are commonly termed 'Conder tokens' after James Conder, originally an Ipswich draper who issued some of his own tokens and later on wrote the first catalogue on the coppery curiosities. They were all produced during a period of dire shortage in metals and buying them from foreign countries was too expensive, so companies and regional authorities manily were permitted to issue their own to fill the shortfall in change.
