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-Amanda
I'm a YN working on a type set!
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<< <i>Is that a SC$? I have been hearing alot about these recently. It's a very neat design!
-Amanda >>
It's a Conder Token.
<< <i>I like that a lot Ken. Can you tell us more about it? >>
I can't tell much. A dealer had about 100 Conder tokens and I liked it at $26 and bought it.
Maybe someone that knows these tokens can fill us in!
-Amanda
I'm a YN working on a type set!
My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!
Proud member of the CUFYNA
-Amanda
I'm a YN working on a type set!
My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!
Proud member of the CUFYNA
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
Some of you know this guy...
and
Doty Article
Many find these addictive!
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
<< <i>A couple links...
Some of you know this guy...
and
Doty Article
Many find these addictive! >>
Many find these addictive!
I can see why. They are very old and for the most part affordable.
Now you tell me!!
Thats old(in the era I collect)
And its in superb condition!
Thanks!
But where the heck am I going to find it!
TKC!
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<< <i>Ahh Shoot!
Now you tell me!!
Thats old(in the era I collect)
And its in superb condition!
Thanks!
But where the heck am I going to find it!
TKC! >>
TKC - Start with the book.
Then visit some of these folks.
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
Thanks for sharing the Conder token.
<< <i>Nifty! Sounds like American HT and CW tokens, except more artistic I think. >>
Very much like them, but the Conders came first and like you say are more artistic. (The six pieces in Farthings sigfile are Conder tokens.) There are between two and three thousand obv/reverse die varieties, and when you include the different edge varieties, you can come up with close to 5,000 different varieties. Even though Conders have been collected for over 200 years it is still possible to make new discoveries in the series. (I currently have three new edge varieties and one new die variety to my credit.)
One nice thing about the Conder series is their availablity in higher grade at very reasonable prices. (Prices are moving upwards though. When I started collecting them, Uncs could be purchased for $18 to $20. Today they will usually cost in the neighborhood of $50 for common varieties. AU's are around $25. At times for some common varieties proofs can still obtained in the $100 - $150 range. Compare this to Large cents which were struck at about the same time, in the same material, and about the same size.) There are rarer varieties though that will cost some real money though. The record is for a penny token from Hertfordshire. There are 4 or 5 pieces known and the finest sold a few years ago for $60,000. (A damaged one sold on eBqay last year though for around $2,000) An added advantage is the scarcity of some of these low priced pieces. Most of the tokens have mintages of 100,000 or less, often much less, but are still considered to be common. I have at least one piece considered common and low priced that had a mintage of just 5,152. Even truly rare coins can be cheap. I just purchase a piece in an auction in London a week ago that has eight to ten pieces known. If only grades VF, but it only cost me $40.
There are several Conder collectors on the Darkside is you want to know more.
<< <i>There are several Conder collectors on the Darkside is you want to know more. >>
Thanks!
-Amanda
I'm a YN working on a type set!
My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!
Proud member of the CUFYNA