Two Newps

spacehayduke

Just did a photo shoot today, been since early June since I had time and newps to image. I am very pleased with both examples in hand. What you don't see in my bust quarter image is the luster - total flash around the rims grading to silky in the interior. The Conder has proof-like surfaces and likely would have been designated as such if graded ATS (PCGS does not have a PL designation). And 30-75 estimated to be extant to boot. Love the three hanging man motif.

Best, SH

Walkerguy21D

Very impressive Bust quarter. I see nicely toned AU bust halves all the time, but rarely see
the quarters this nice.

Catbert

Wonderful!

jtlee321

When I was younger, I had no desire for Bust coinage. My how my tastes have changed!! I need to get a nicely toned example like yours, they are truly a thing of beauty.

Eagleguy

I missed that 1835 quarter by about 30 seconds. Congrats on your pickup. It's a beauty!

golden

Originally posted by: Walkerguy21D
Very impressive Bust quarter. I see nicely toned AU bust halves all the time, but rarely see
the quarters this nice.

spacehayduke

Originally posted by: Eagleguy
I missed that 1835 quarter by about 30 seconds. Congrats on your pickup. It's a beauty!

Good to know others were interested in it as well, means I picked something good......

Best, SH

lordmarcovan

The quarter's a stunner.

gnat

I think I can agree that Quarter is very nice. Hard to find an AU with such clean and nicely toned surfaces. Better looking than some "higher grade" examples.

Flatwoods

Great pics and amazing coins.

I love that quarter!

coinlieutenant

yeah....I was going after that quarter too. Very nice.

spacehayduke

Originally posted by: golden

Originally posted by: Walkerguy21D
Very impressive Bust quarter. I see nicely toned AU bust halves all the time, but rarely see
the quarters this nice.

Nice capped bust quarters that have not been messed with, have some nice toning and minimal nicks are hard to find - mintages were low relative to bust halves. So a tough series to collect overall. HST, many more die marriages for bust halves making a complete collection, as we know, an amazing challenge. Both series are worth collecting for sure. A perhaps even greater challenge is the draped bust quarters.....

Best, SH

lkeigwin

Wow. Great choices, SH. I'm partial to the quarter, of course. Lovely color and very clean surfaces. There's always a tradeoff with color and luster but I can see the latter peeking through.



Spectacular Conder. A really neat scarcity. I must find one of those someday.

Lance.

ricko

Both are extremely nice specimens.... will have to look for the history behind the Condor... Cheers, RickO

BryceM

Very nice. I instantly assumed it was a half. As others have said, this is really a nice find for a quarter.

spacehayduke

Thanks everyone, the Conder is one of the 'political' tokens of its time pushing against the status quo and for the rights of man. It was such a tumultuous time period – a turning point in history. The Revolutionary war with Britain and the French Revolution were prominent on the world scene. In Britain it was a time when men stood up for what was right and were willing to die for their beliefs in freedom and equality. It was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when people were moving from the country to the cities and the merchants needed small coinage to pay their workers. Counterfeited regal coins almost outnumbered the real thing and silver was priced at an all time high. The British Crown didn't think copper a worthy enough metal to be struck at the royal mint so permission for copper tokens to be manufactured by the people was given. So the Conder political tokens were born out of these times.

The reverse represents 3 hanging men, two of which apparently were leading the movement - Thomas Spence and Thomas Paine, and others - google either name to further examine what was going on at that time.

Rights of Man

1794 Treason Trials

Also here is a link to the same token in the PCGS Coinfacts - note the strike through between the two men facing each other that shows these images are the same token as mine. Try as I might I could not reproduce the colors - one has to have the light directly on top of it and it takes a better photographer than I to capture those colors without alot of reflections:

PCGS image of this token

SkyMan

Good looking Newps!