New Conders!!!!!!!!!!

cosmicdebris

boz

While buying this new house, I am living vicariously through you. Keep them coming.
Both are very nice
The second is Scottish right?

farthing

I have examples of both of those - but yours are in MUCH nicer condition!

MSD61

Conders are so cool and you've got two good ones there Bill!

oldshep

Once again, Wowzers!!
Shep

CoinAddict

Those are awesome. The dragons on the second one are very cool.

cosmicdebris

I really need to redo the Crooms picture. It is such a lovely proof with nice reflective fields and this image just does not show them.

AuldFartte

Fabulous

I always loved that one with the weaver and loom. Neat design!

Askari

Superb!!

ccrdragon

Love the dragons!!!!

How many conders you got now?

cosmicdebris

The Dragons are cool. I am up to 27 Conder Tokens.

Sylvestius

Hmm i bought one today... *cough*

rhound1977

They look pretty old to me But they sure are nice......

cosmicdebris

<< Hmm i bought one today... *cough* >>

You bought copper?????????

What'd you get?

Aethelred

Both are very nice, but that second one is amazing!!!!!

Sylvestius

Well i don't know much about Conders, so i hope i haven't picked a Dud.. i just saw it and though ha, i'll get that. It's not actually for me but it's for a friend of mine who has a thing about copper coins. I will admit though as i was looking i was getting a little interested in them. Some are quite nice... oh dear did i just say that?


Here's a link to some pics;

Conder


(Bearing in mind i bought this without any knowledge about them, so watch me have pulled a forgery or something!)

cosmicdebris

Someone is going down

Link no worky for me. It wanted me to login.

Sylvestius

Hang on...

Try this;

cosmicdebris

There it is. Lady Godiva. Nice one.

Sylvestius

Can i ask what would a decent price be on that one. I bought it in York (England) yesterday, now York's a coin hotbed as it has several shops, but being as it's an historic city marketed at tourists and the tourist industry i suppose they can charge prices at the upper end of the value spectrum.

I got this one for £7.50, now i had no idea what a fair price was for one of these. I'm not bothered if i overpayed too much cos it's a present for a friend on another forum anyhow. I showed him a picture and he likes it, so i'm happy whatever.

cosmicdebris

I'd say that was a fair price for that one. As for what they normally sell for I have seen them all over the place depending on the grade. From $15.00 to $150.00 for diffferent varities.

Sylvestius

I dunno if i could make myself spend $150 on copper, but the cheaper ones look to be pretty decent for the price.

Am i going mad here? Cuprophobic and having to try to persuade myself not to buy copper?

You've poisoned my mind... And i actually think i'm rather enjoying it.

cosmicdebris

Copper poisening I love it. I need a nice example of the Lady Godiva one but I have not found one that I like yet.

As for $150.00 on copper that ain't nothing. I bid £700 on a Conder Token in the October Dix Noonan auction and still lost by a lot.

Sylvestius

Now i'd happily spend £700 on a piece of tin, silver or gold. Strange innit?

danglen

I just sold a Lady Godiva token on eBay last week, and it wasn't in as nice a condition as yours, for I think about $13.00, so at what you paid for it I think you did good

Conder101

You paid about the right price unless the edge says PAYABLE AT I FIELDINGS MANCHESTER. You have a Warwickshire 242. It comes with six different edge inscriptions. The I Fieldings edge (242e) is extremely rare, and tere are two other edges which are just rare. The other three are common. You may be interested to know that your coin is a contemporary counterfeit as are all of the 1793 Lady Godivas.

ColinCMR

very cool!

Sylvestius

<< <i>You paid about the right price unless the edge says PAYABLE AT I FIELDINGS MANCHESTER. You have a Warwickshire 242. It comes with six different edge inscriptions. The I Fieldings edge (242e) is extremely rare, and tere are two other edges which are just rare. The other three are common. You may be interested to know that your coin is a contemporary counterfeit as are all of the 1793 Lady Godivas. >>



You know i had a feeling you were gonna say that!

Actually that's all the more better, cos a counterfeit shows what a state the currency was in at the time. Not only were they having to produce tokens to make up for the lack of regal coinage (of which alot were forgeries anyhow), but they are actively copying the conder token as well!

Wow i couldn't have captured a period of history any better if i'd tried really. Wicked

PuddlePirate

I got bite by the Conder bug well before I started posting here. I keep telling myself noooo! but it doesn't work. I now have a dozen of the silly things and I know there will be more!

Sylvestius

Noooooooooooo! There is no cure...

astrorat

Paging through an old British dictionary I found this entry:

Conderoma - [con' • der • oma]

1. A cerebral growth that decreases purchasing inhibition when exposed to copper greater than 200 years old; no known cure available at present.

2. A benign brain tumor believed to originate in England around the turn of the 19th century following exposure to excessively wonderful copper tokens.

Lane

cosmicdebris

<<Conderoma>>

Sylvestius

I've booked myself in for surgery to have it removed!

farthing

Knowing the state of the National Health system in England you may have to live with that growth for several years!

Sylvestius

Several decades...