From Beldibi to Bedfordshire – 11,000 Years of Tokens Part 1. What is a Token? – Gary Oddie

This Blog, and parts 2 and 3 to follow shortly, have been produced following a few requests for a permanent record of a talk that I gave at this year’s Token Congress. Each of the slides presented in this first instalment is essentially a summary of a whole talk given at some point in the past 20-30 years. Topics covered include; regal shillings, counterfeit shillings, token shillings, local tokens, world tokens and postal orders.

2 thoughts on “From Beldibi to Bedfordshire – 11,000 Years of Tokens Part 1. What is a Token? – Gary Oddie

    • Hi David, not specifically, though early ecclesiastical lead tokens and Boy Bishop tokens make an appearance. There are just too many series of tokens to be included in a 45 minute talk and three short Blogs. The aim is to do a general overview with some specific series as examples. The Mitchiner and Skinner article in the 1983 BNJ covers your series, as do many entries in the Leaden Tokens Telegraph (https://thetokensociety.org.uk/ltt/).

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