Bcoin.Com:An extensive collection of links to coin
sites well organized into categories ranging from "American Coins" to
"World Coins".
British Coin Collectors' Site:Dedicated to
collecting British Coins. Has an excellent overview of conders or "18th
Century Provincial Token Coinage" by Gary Sriro which you can also reach
directly here.
Coin Shows:Over 500 worldwide Coin Shows listed
plus a coin Yellow Pages directory.
Coin Today:Calls
itself the "Premier Numismatic News Source Online" and it could very well
be ... lots of material here in a well built site ... certainly worth
checking out for general numismatic information.
Conder
Cabinet: The Conder Cabinet website is "dedicated to the study
and enjoyment of Conder tokens. It consists of high quality full color
images of choice tokens donated to the site by persons interested in
furthering the hobby of collecting these remarkable pieces of art and
history. The goal of the site is to display a fine image of each major
token type, arranged by county and DH number". Your comments and
image contributions should be sent to: Michael Grogan mngrogan@comcast.net
.
Conder Token Collector's Club Georgetown CT:The
club publishes a very informative quarterly journal with scholarly and
entertaining articles plus advertisements from collectors and dealers
worldwide.
Eurekster: New search engine that allows use of
SearchGroups to focus your search by area of interest ... in this case the
focus is UK Provincial Tokens. Your participation is encouraged. (27 Mar
2004)
GENUKI:The aim of
GENUKI is to serve as a "virtual reference library" of genealogical
information that is of particular relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is
a noncommercial service, provided by volunteers in cooperation with the
Federation of Family History Societies and a number of its member
societies. Seems an excellent place to begin researching counties and
names associated with tokens. Another is Curious
Fox .
Industry Council for Tangible Assets (ICTA): ICTA is
a National Trade Association for the Rare Coin / Precious Metals /
Tangible Assets Industry currently addressing many issues that impact
collectors ... such as a VAT or National Sales Tax and Internet taxation.
(21 June 2004)
Maps:Here's a site that provides access to
Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive.
MyCoinCabinet.Com:A web site of images of a nice collection of 18th Century British Provincial Token Coinage (Conder Tokens) by Cliff Lawless that includes tokens from Anglesey, Cork, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Lanarkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Somersetshire, Suffolk, Sussex, Warwickshire and more. The web site has a great search feature to find tokens that are included ... very impressive. (27 Oct 2006)
News Group Postings:Uses Google to extract conder
postings in News Groups sorted by date.
Numismatic Bibliomania
Society (NBS):A non-profit educational organization founded in
1980 to support and promote the use and collecting of numismatic
literature.
Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG): The PNG is "a
nonprofit organization composed of the world's top rare coin and paper
money experts. As numismatic professionals, our primary mission is to make
the hobby safe for collectors and investors by maintaining rigid standards
of excellence for our member dealers". (21 June 2004)
Provincial
Token Coinage:Part 9 in a series on "Coinage of Great Britain. Celtic to Decimalisation" by
Ken Elks from June 2003 addresses the three main waves of tokens in the
UK, during the 17th Century from 1648-1670, the late 18th Century
(1787-1797) and early in the 19th Century, circa 1810-1812. (16 Feb
2004)
Royal Numismatic Society:The Society was
founded in 1836. Lectures and publications deal with classical, Asian,
medieval and modern coins, paper money, tokens and medals.
Selgin,
George:George is a Professor of Economics in The Terry College of
Business at University of Georgia. His principal research areas are
monetary and banking theory, monetary history, and macroeconomics. He is
currently focusing on an "episode involving copper coinage that took place
in Britain from 1787 to 1797". Hmmmmm. Sound familiar? Extensive excerpts
from book in progress called "Good Money: How a bunch of Button Makers
beat Gresham's Law, solved the most urgent Economic Problem of their day,
and cleared the way for the Industrial Revolution." are available from his
web
site. (19 Feb 2004)
Token Corresponding Society: The Token Corresponding Society has an annual congress and publishes a quarterly bulletin which does sometimes include "Conder" type
material though the majority of the content is related to token material
that does not appear in standard catalogues. Further information on the Token
Corresponding Society is available from David Young / 89 Gillards Close / Rockwell Green / Wellington / Somerset / TA21 9DX (23 Sep 2006)
Token Publishing:Produces "Coin News" and "Medal News" in the UK. A free trial issue is
available.
Wilkinson
Family, Ironmasters: Extensive overview by Jock
and Jan Carlisle that came to my attention while reading George Selgin's
"Good Money" where it is cited as a reference. (26 Feb 2004)
W.J.Noble Collection: The W.J.Noble Collection of
British Tokens, which was sold in 1998, has been added to the online
catalogue archive at Noble Numismatics. This collection is quite comprehensive and there are over
4000 images ... it is an exceptional resource for any Conder enthusiast.
(26 May 2005)