Cecil Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!! 'Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup'
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
<< <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
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!
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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.
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Both are very nice
The second is Scottish right?
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I always loved that one with the weaver and loom. Neat design!
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How many conders you got now?
Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!!
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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!)
Link no worky for me. It wanted me to login.
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Try this;
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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.
09/07/2006
Am i going mad here? Cuprophobic and having to try to persuade myself not to buy copper?
You've poisoned my mind...
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.
09/07/2006
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<< <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
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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
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
09/07/2006
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm