I am new to the world of Conders and I was wondering if some of you would share your insights as to ways to organize a collection of Conders. At the start I...
There are many different ways you can collect them. I started just doing one per English county. You could do all from one town, all from one county, all...
The best advice I received about collecting Conders was from Jerry Bobbe who said "Collect what you like". Joining the CTCC will expose you to collecting ideas...
Got the email below recently and thought I'd pass it on to this group for a better answer than I could provide on my own. I am new to the Conder World. Are...
Hi, I recently bought a nice example of Warwickshire, Birmingham 145. I would like to know who John Howard was and what the initials F.R.S. stand for. More...
... I ... F.R.S. ... such ... copy ... help in ... Hello Jeff, John Howard was a philanthropist and prison reformer who died in 1790. There are many references...
You couldn't find the info, Jeff, because you haven't bought the right book(s) yet. That type of historical and biographical information is in 2 sources. One...
... 145. ... obtains ... who ... such ... (prison_reformer). "F.R.S." ... studying ... Jeff, note that you must use the complete link to get the correct John...
D&H 29 Lancaster, Lancashire edge should read; PAYABLE IN LONDON BRISTOL & LANCASTER – X – D&H 29a Lancaster, Lancashire edge should read; PAYABLE IN...
Keeping in mind the last half page of Samuel Hamer's introduction in the D&H book, this would most probably be considered a blundered 29a edge. Gary Sriro...
Thank you for the quick response. Your assessment of the Lancashire DH29a blundered edge makes good sense to me, and I will catalogue as such. Thanks again ...
Simply put they were not a Regal or State coinage, but were instead a coinage created for mercants in and sometimes by the various Counties ("Provinces") of...
... sense ... Jeff, exactly what to call these tokens is an excellent question without a really good answer. Certainly many were made in the provinces, but a...
True, but from what I understand Conder's work became the standard reference for the series until the Atkins book in 1890. That seems a good enough reason to...
Hello all. I was wondering if someone could give me an idea of relative scarcity of various issues. For example, is 'scarce' somewhere near a mintage of 10...
A lot closer to 10 than 10,000, but usually significantly more than 10... There are a number of different scales... and all have a subjective element Marc ... ...
Unfortunately, one can't generally assume that "scarce" tokens are also tokens originally manufactured in especially small quantities. Bell (1963) includes...
In the words of the Mad Monarch (JB), "....buy the best you can afford and understand." With time, if you are like most of us what you can afford will not...
Some time ago, some "authority" advised me about this and I have written on the front endpage of my D & H 10 or less RRR 11-30 RR 31-72 R 73-150 Scarce...
He is removed, but since it is an open forum he can rejoin. If problems like this keep occuring, we can require approval of new members. Mike ... From:...
G'day from south eastern Australia. My wife and I could use a little help here. We keep finding unusual (at least to us!) tokens and fake coins. We joined the...
Hi Wal & Jill, I believe what you have there is a 19th century Scottish farthing token. I've seen one other exactly as you describe with the blank side. I...
W & J ~ I've seen that one before, too, and may even have sold it on eBay a few years ago. I don't collect them per se, but they often show up when I buy...
Does anyone here in the group own an example of Shropshire 11? If so can they send me pictures? The reason I ask is because I am finding it impossible to...
Gary's CD just arrived in the mail and I happened to be cruising through the images so I took a look at Shropshire folder ... image he has looks like a...
