I just won a Dalton & Hamer cheap on eBay - Got it today!
Aethelred
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Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
<< <i>Nice price on the brand new reprint. You have many hours of fun ahead of you! >>
I suspect that is more like many years of fun!
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Searching out the history of the pieces you buy will fill up any remaining hours in the day.
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
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<< <i>Dalton & Hamer on Condors with 12 page 2004 Update >>
Dang, what does it usually go for?
While I would not call any book that goes for more than $100 "cheap", I can certainly see how that one would be worth the money. Wouldn't mind having one, myself.
<< <i>You bought a book on birds >>
He should have bought the book on wrens or sparrows, instead of condors. The volume about vultures, even.
Correction - Davisson's current price for the book is $150.
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
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1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
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You want how much?!!
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This new edition is in a larger format than the preceeding ones, the text and images are the same size but it has a much wider border around the text. Great for writing notes, corrections, and annotations into the book. Unfortunately none of the errors that were contained in the first edition have ever been corrected in the text because when Davisson took over as publisher, the 1990 edition was created from contact prints made from an original 1910 edition of D&H. The 1996 and 2004 have used the same contact prints.
The 1996 edition contained all the new discoveries made between 1910 and 1990 that appeared in the 1990 edition and the new discoveries found between 1990 and 1996. For some reason the 2004 edition does not list the 1990 - 96 discoveries. They put them and the 96 - 04 discoveries in the seperate supplement. (In the 96 - 04 suppliment he has started crediting the discoverers. I barely got my new Shropshire discovery to him before the deadline)
Aethelred, send me your address and I'll send you a couple of items to go with your D&H. A copy of Legend Index of English Conder Tokens, and a photocopy of Notes on 18th Century Tokens by Waters
One problem with starting to collect Conder tokens is that often you can't tell by looking at them what county they are from and you have to page through the book trying to match it to the pictures. With the Legend Index you sply look up the inscription and it tells you every county and D&H number that uses it. By looking up both sides and noting the numbers they have in common you can usually narrow it down to just a couple possibilities and go to them directly in D&H instead of paging through it. It is a LOT faster. Unfortuately it only covers the English counties so if your token is Welsh, Scottish or Irish you're on your own.
Waters is really interesting as it lists mintages, engravers, and coiners for each variety or group of varieties.
<< <i>Aethelred, send me your address and I'll send you a couple of items to go with your D&H. A copy of Legend Index of English Conder Tokens, and a photocopy of Notes on 18th Century Tokens by Waters >>
PM sent, thank you very much Mike!
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