Provincial Tokens

Set Description
Provincial token-coinage of 18th century Great Britain - Conders.
The standard reference for the series is "The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century" by Richard Dalton and Samuel H. Hamer, published in serialized form between 1910 and 1918. This replaced James Atkins "The Tradesmen's Tokens of the 18th Century", published in 1892, as the standard reference.
The series consists of tokens issued generally between 1787 and 1799 in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, though some Ireland tokens included were minted in the first few years of the 19th century. In addition, a few of the tokens were minted into the 1830's combining new dies paired with original dies, most notably by the medalists William J. Taylor and John Ottley.
The tokens in the series can be broken down into a number of different types: Genuine Trade (Commercial) Tokens (GTT), Private Tokens, Political Tokens, Specious Tokens made for collectors, Evasion or General Use Tokens and Medalettes.
A number of books have been written about the series, including a series of books by R. C. Bell, "Coinage and Currency in Eighteenth Century Britain" by David Dykes and "British and Irish Tradesmen and their Copper Tokens of 1787-1804" by Jon Lusk. In addition, a number of the medalettes can be found listed in Volume I of "British Historical Medals" (BHM) by Laurence Brown.
The rarity scale used by Dalton & Hamer is: C-Common, S-Scarce, R-Rare, RR-Very Rare and RRR - Extremely Rare. The rarity they assigned to these tokens still hold up surprisingly well today for the vast majority of the tokens.

Set Goals
Building a nice representative collection of Genuine Trade Tokens, Political Tokens, Private Tokens, Specious Tokens, and Medalettes created for collectors during the late 18th century across all counties of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.