Found this old coin with a shield on it last time out

[The Patriot]

Well didn't post my finds with Hans and the Iron Bros last time as there wasn't a lot to take pictures of except for the usual musketballs and unreadable coins. Well cleaned this one up and I noticed that there was a small shield on the bottom middle and on the other side has an oval shape inside the coin...I have no clue but I imagine someone here will put a name to it pretty fast... Roughly the same size as the a Geo II and would be around the same age.
thanks

 

[romeo-1]

I'm going to guess a Condor token...should be able to ID it...

 

[BobinSouthVA]

neat find.

don't know anything about anything but I do see some letters (may have gotten some of them wrong)
You may want to put this in the WII forum

 

[The Patriot]

neat find.

don't know anything about anything but I do see some letters (may have gotten some of them wrong)
You may want to put this in the WII forum

Great eye Bob...didn't see that

thanks

 

[Iron Patch]

I'm going to guess a Condor token...should be able to ID it...

I'd place a good bet on it, and one just as good I've had the same coin in my hand at one point. The problem is I always remember the design, but not the location it was from. I found a similiar oval design (which few have) on a halfpenny from Dundee so I would give this one a good chance at also being a Scottish trade token. This Winter I'm going to finally buy a reference book for these.

 

[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

Well, knowing the luck you & friends are having it's probably so rare that it is not in Charlton Colonial tokens. I checked the Red book also with no luck. I have the last 500 years of coins in the Krause's books but that is a big job. Any hints as where to look? Other than America, who else uses a shield? South America, Spanish colonies, Belgium? I'll poke around some more.
Looks interesting!
Dave.

 

[Iron Patch]

Well, knowing the luck you & friends are having it's probably so rare that it is not in Charlton Colonial tokens. I checked the Red book also with no luck. I have the last 500 years of coins in the Krause's books but that is a big job. Any hints as where to look? Other than America, who else uses a shield? South America, Spanish colonies, Belgium? I'll poke around some more.
Looks interesting!
Dave.

Try finding a book on late 18th century trade tokens (1790s) and you'll find it. (Not in any coin Krause)

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

 

[Iron Patch]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

 

[Silver Searcher]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

Send me the name of that book will you ...Fantastic find by the way

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

Send me the name of that book will you ...Fantastic find by the way

SS

Its 2 1/4 inch thick book I think it was about £125 or £90, can't remember

The Provincial Token - Coinage of the 18th Century
Dalton & Hamer
1910-1918
Updated
Davisson

 

[Iron Patch]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

I knew it would be in the book being very sure I had seen it before and definitely was not Canadian. Now seeing what it is I know I would have never come up the ID searching online.

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

I knew it would be in the book being very sure I had seen it before and definitely was not Canadian. Now seeing what it is I know I would have never come up the ID searching online.

Near on impossible I would have said. Very little clues & a very unusual location.

 

[Iron Patch]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

Send me the name of that book will you ...Fantastic find by the way

SS

Its 2 1/4 inch thick book I think it was about £125 or £90, can't remember

The Provincial Token - Coinage of the 18th Century
Dalton & Hamer
1910-1918
Updated
Davisson

I was going to ask you if it was the old book, or an updated version... just couldn't remember the name. About a year ago I was looking at them, and probably will again sometime soon. A little pricey but well worth it.

 

[Silver Searcher]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

Send me the name of that book will you ...Fantastic find by the way

SS

Its 2 1/4 inch thick book I think it was about £125 or £90, can't remember

The Provincial Token - Coinage of the 18th Century
Dalton & Hamer
1910-1918
Updated
Davisson

Cheers...on the pressy list that one

 

[Iron Patch]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

I knew it would be in the book being very sure I had seen it before and definitely was not Canadian. Now seeing what it is I know I would have never come up the ID searching online.

Near on impossible I would have said. Very little clues & a very unusual location.

Other than the one found here I don't recall seeing one for sale, and I have looked through thousands of hp t tokens on the E. There no doubt have been a few, but I don't recall any.

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

I knew it would be in the book being very sure I had seen it before and definitely was not Canadian. Now seeing what it is I know I would have never come up the ID searching online.

Near on impossible I would have said. Very little clues & a very unusual location.

Other than the one found here I don't recall seeing one for sale, and I have looked through thousands of hp t tokens on the E. There no doubt have been a few, but I don't recall any.

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/forei.../18 Ireland/british_condor_tokens IRELAND.htm
It is for sale on here, the link was just to the picture, its £35. This site looks a good one to bookmark

 

[Iron Patch]

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/foreigncoins/Condor Tokens/18 Ireland/bct932.htm

1800 Wexford Enniscorthy Halfpenny Condor Token (Ireland)

OBV: A castle by the sea, having a gateway with portcullis with 6 bars.
PAYABLE AT THE BANK OF R. W. ENNISCORTHY.

REV: A monogram RW upon a shield suspended from the branch of a tree. A.D. 1800

Cool, have you ever found one? It is one that I haven't owned, but I believe a friend found one here several years ago. There's just something about the design that stuck in my mind... reminds me of holloween, spooky tree. If it wasn't for that I would never remember his find.

No. I wasn't going to tell you my magical powers, but hay!

Used my expensive 500 page token but, looked at every picture & got to the end in the Ireland section at about 470ish & found it. I was thinking at the time, its not British, I bet its Canadian & I'm wasting my time

I knew it would be in the book being very sure I had seen it before and definitely was not Canadian. Now seeing what it is I know I would have never come up the ID searching online.

Near on impossible I would have said. Very little clues & a very unusual location.

Other than the one found here I don't recall seeing one for sale, and I have looked through thousands of hp t tokens on the E. There no doubt have been a few, but I don't recall any.

http://www.coinsandstamps.com/forei.../18 Ireland/british_condor_tokens IRELAND.htm
It is for sale on here, the link was just to the picture, its £35. This site looks a good one to bookmark

Go figure! I was at that site earlier looking for it... under the Scottish section!

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: Woodcock's Bank in Enniscorthy, Wexford. Although (the tokens are) dated 1800, they were not actually minted until 1801 and probably issued the following year.
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cach...RTHY+token&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

Some history on Woodcock's Bank (and his tokens) can be found here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ec...niscorthy,+Wexford.&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

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