I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!. Now get ready for sandwiches!! Last October I had a member telling me to submit an article to the Numismatist. I kept saying no. Well he was very persistent. So he told me what I had to do and I sent it in. It took Mr. Caleb the editor of the magazine to email me one day. He informed me the article was very good and they wanted my permission to to print it!. He asked if I wanted to get paid or donate the money. I donated it to the yngs. This blog is different than other. It tells collector's what they should do to get published. It can help. And� ask me questions!!� � � � I was schocked. They were going to publish my article! I had pictures to take. So my friend Mokie� said Gary (coinsbygary) was a professional photographer. Now I had to send him the five tokens. I was a wreck mailing these. They are one of a kind part of Peter Kempsons� Tokens of Coventry. I would not be able to get another of each. They came back I was so relieved. Gary Herman did a fantastic job. Remember these are from 1797.�

Hi I hope everyone is doing fine. This will be done in parts. There is so much information on these.� These were made during the Civil War because on July 17, 1862 the United States went coinless! That's right. People horded all the change. This is after on February 25,1862 the government made 150,000,000 in legal tender notes redeemable for gold and silver. Its expensive to run a war. It was costing Lincoln one million dollars a day to keep the army fighting and that wasn't enough!� � � � � � � That's right people hoarded all the change they could get. You couldn't get a hair cut nothing. So the government allotted another 150,000,000 of legal tender. This was to remedy the shortage or least part of it. War will do this to a country. They also made stamps legal tender up to five dollars.�� � � � �To say the country was in bad shape was an understatement. In comes some ideas. A gentleman by the name of John Gault came to N.Y from Boston he put stamps in round brass pieces. They were made 1 cent 3 cents five cents 10cents and 90 cents. This helped a little. Today these are very expensive.� � � �.Now the tokens started to show up. They were made of two dies one for the obverse and one for the reverse.two brothers started catalogue these they were George Fuld and his brother Melvin.� Years later Q. David Bowers came� up with two books on these tokens and artifacts. The soldiers carried them till they could mail them home so the family could� buy items with them. There were two types Political and store cards(tokens). The store name was on the token.�

Hi everyone ! I hope your all ok! Now I don't know how many of you saw the show 'The Tudors '. It was a mini series based on the reign of the one and only Henry The V111. The Tudor monarchy. This series was based on fiction and nonfiction. They did this with most movies of that time period. Take� Braveheart. Were William Wallace who was real sacked York. The Vikings sacked York. And he only won one battle. Sorry to disappoint you guys. It was another movie made of fiction and nonfiction..�� � � � � � Now the token below is one of my favorites. The likeness of the Cardinal was done from a painting and put on copper.Its uncanny how good the engraver did this. I believe it was Wyon. I will check that. Since my blogs come from history. The gate was on the reverse was called Wolsey Gate. He was born in Ipswich Suffolk. His first name was Thomas. Born in 1475 and died in 1530. The same town as James Conder who started categorizing them. This token is a penny!!� � � � � Now it was said Henry ruled the Kingdom but Wolsey called the shots.� King Henry was very upset he could not get a divorce so he could marry again.� He was the Chancellor of England and had more going on than the King had. And that was allot. He had an illegitimate son who would travel with him when he went to collect taxes from the Abbeys and church's.� This money went to good use his charity's.� � � � � Now there was allot of rumor that King Henry disliked the Cardinal. This was not true. King Henry liked most of his fund raisers. He did get a divorce from Pope Clement V11. But not the one he wanted. Now this is were it starts to break up the close friendship. Orders went out that the Cardinal had to return to London for treason. Now the show would have you think he committed suicide in the Tower of London.�� � �This also is not true.. Coming back to London the Cardinal became very sick .� He was in the town of Leicester and had to stop It was dysentery. It caused his death. He spoke at length on his death bed but the sentence most� remembered for is"If I treated My God as I did My King perhaps I would not have this gray hair"� �....So there is a short list of how he lived and died. He had many� beheaded. He stole all the money he could but was glorified in the series The Tudors. The token� was made.some two hundred years after his death. But it shows the impact one man had over a King and a Country. The detail in the gate is as I always say remarkable. His likeness also.� I sent it to NGC it came back Red brown MS 64. Please click on the pictures of the token on his face and the gate and see the work that went into it. I hope you enjoyed this little bit of history. I forgot his crest Most of those in the Monarchy had there family crest. It showed how.powerful you were.� In earlier days the crest stood for the family every family had one I have a family crest. Thanks and enjoy!!

Well I will try and keep this short. Simply because once I start writing about them I can't stop. Conder Tokens were made mostly in the 1700's in England. They did for the English what civil war tokens did for us. You see England was involved in many wars. The French the Spanish and us. This almost bankrupt the country.��So a gentleman named Matthew Bolton who owned the Soho mint began to make these tokens so they could be redeemed for basic items. That information was on the edge. Now not all had edge writing. They were� made in half penny's and pennys. Saint Michaels Cathedral below is very large that's a penny.�

Hi!Hope everyone is doing well. Today I will write about about the Gates Of Coventry. Now I will not write the whole article that was published in the Clarion magazine published at the last P.A.N. show. I had no idea that I was published. A good friend suggested it and the editor and publisher said yes.. When I received the magazine in the mail I had no idea the cover was about my article!The beauty of the set they all grade between MS 63 to 66. Not bad for 223 years old!! Please look at the engraving of these. It must of taken months to make a die. You can see every brick and window. This was a man born with the talent.