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.
Are wine tavern tokens coming in a later part? I have an interest in these; and a collection of them.
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/).