Jon20

Thanks very much for the info, Wendy!

As with most of my collecting (and my life!), focus is hard to come by. I tried for years to focus my book collection and it's still a hodge podge of disparate texts with no real theme.

Beautiful tokens in this thread. I just recently took an interest in these and have only picked up a few poor examples, but I've had a great time browsing the last ~50 pages. Just to keep with the spirit of this thread I'll post one, although it's not nearly as nice as the ones the rest of you have:

This token depicts the Dunkirk wool mill in Somerset, near Bath. This was the first minting (i think), and features a prominent typo in the name Dunkirk. Later variants corrected this and added mention of Somerset below. I was able to locate the site of the building, and it still exists, although it's lost a couple floors over the centuries! It's since been converted into very expensive housing.

Is there somewhere with a photographic database of all known Conders? Also, would one of you mind explaining some of the jargon associated with these coins? I assume D&H numbers are some sort of cataloging system, but where can I access that catalog? Is it available online or only in print?