Tokens

Thanks.....Wow what an expensive book!

I need a website to subscribe to or Dave whats your number? :)))))

To see if you have enough Conder tokens to justify the purchase, google "Conder Tokens" and look at a sampling of the images. Also, if you wish, post a couple pictures from your collection (British from the 1790s) and I will identify them for you.

Although I have collected official U.S. Coins extensively, my true passion has become tokens and medals -- Civil War, Hard Times, Transportation, Conder, Political Medalets, So-Called Dollars, Washington Medals etc. In each case, obtaining the key reference texts has dramatically enhanced the experience.

You are very fortunate to have obtained the token collections.

Just remembered this:
http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/coins/DandH.htm
It may help.

For Early 19th-Century England, Ireland, Wales, and Channel Islands,
the authority is "British Copper Tokens: 1811-1820" by Paul & Bente Withers.

Aside from the Dalton & Hamer book itself (D&H), Bill McKivor's pricelists may help with
pricing some of them out. He's at https://www.coppercorner.com. Same goes for Allan Davisson's
lists and archives at http://www.classiccoins.com. He's the publisher of the most recent editions of D&H.

For some subspecialties and other eras in Britain, you'll need to check into Atkins, Bell,
and Boyne, all of whom are available online in their entirety, I believe, via Google Books.

For silver, go straight to Richard Dalton's "Silver Token Coinage: 1811-12." I've got the book,
but I've seen it online too, at: http://www.archive.org/stream/silve...n3/mode/2up.

For Canadian, pick up the "Charlton Standard Catalog of Canadian Colonial Tokens."
Sixth edition current, 7th expected by the end of the year. (Relatively cheap paperback.)

Any that you can't identify can be posted here, of course, for a little help from your friends.

(I've been collecting this kind of material for about 35-40 years now.)

I'm jealous!
Tom