Hi Everyone!       I wanted to share my latest addition to my collection.  I love these old Tokens with the Lion design on them.  This is a 1796 G.Brit  D&H-20  Penny  Warwickshire- Kempson with edged lettering.  I bought it raw and then sent it in to NGC for grading and to protect it.  It came back a MS64 BN,  which I was pleased with.  I especially liked this design with the Lion sleeping in his cave...  Reminded me of that old song  "The Lion sleeps tonight"...   Does anyone remember that one?    haha     Thanks for taking a look!     ; )

Hi everyone!   Hope all is quiet on the home front and we're all taking time to enjoy our coins and collections.  This is a new area of collecting for me...  Pidcock's Exhibition (London) English Conder Tokens.  How cool are these!  Old and gnarly with great animals on them...  I had to have one!  ( Actually my second one is on the way even as I write this... haha)   The Pidcock Exhibition was a private zoo in London that showed all kinds of exotic animals from around the world.  Many Londoners had never seen such beasts before as these were imported from Asia, Africa, India, Australia and South America.  The Tokens featured a animal on each side with the exception of a couple varieties.  Some examples are elephants, parrots, rhinos, monkeys, lions, zebras, kangaroos, eagles and even a two-headed cow!    This particular Pidcock is a 1790's Great Britain   D&H-414  1/2P   E: Plain   NGC graded it an MS62 BN.  Also note that "EXIBITION" is misspelled.  These were struck in copper so the best of the best would have a deep red finish.  But since my Token is about 230 years old a bit of that red has been worn off...  haha   To me this example is wonderful!  I love the Lion ( a lot of you know I have a thing for Lions ) and the Eagle definitely has attitude!  Also known in the Token collecting world as the "Crazy Bird".   I hope you enjoyed my blog and this interesting new collection.