Here's some tokens I've got recently. The Gibraltar tokens I bought just before Christmas off of eBay. I did some research on these types of tokens a few years ago for a friend and these were the first I'd seen for sale on eBay in Australia. The grades are surprisingly good and I like the spelling error on the 1802 tokens.
The last token is a "conder token" to go with the one that PPH got me for Christmas. I like the representation of the loom. It was struck by John Fincham of Haverhill in Suffolk and is a half penny.
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/gibraltar-1802-quart-keeling.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/gibraltar-1802-2-quarts-keeling.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/gibraltar-1810-quarto-keeling.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/gibraltar-1810-2-quartos-keeling.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/gibraltar-1820-quarto-spittle.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/great-britain-1794-halfpenny-fincham.jpg)
what is the Quart of ? RUM?
According to this page on the Gibraltar treasury website (http://www.treasury.gov.gi/Early_Coins0101.html) the quarto is probably a corruption of the Spanish "cuartos" or "fourth". Presumably at "quarto" was valued at a farthing (1/4 of a penny) and a 2 quarto at a half penny.
NICE!!!!
Very Nice.......Hmmmmm more to add to my wish list
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I like how they added the O in the later coins. Groovy Manufactory Loom. :good:
fabulous imagery in times when there was no TV, newspaper print only really getting started around 1833 and photographs were an expensive commodity
Quote from: 'markn' pid='38846' dateline='1388737166'...the quarto is probably a corruption of the Spanish "cuartos" or "fourth". Presumably at "quarto" was valued at a farthing (1/4 of a penny) and a 2 quarto at a half penny.
The quarto was 1/24th of a Spanish real, or 1/192nd of a silver dollar. With the Spanish dollar pegged at 52 pence in Gibraltar at the time, that means that a quarto did not have a convenient exchange rate to sterling: 52/192nd or 13/48th of a penny, or 1 and 1/12 farthings. Merchants probably treated farthings and quartos at par in everyday trade, but they'd have needed some of those little tiny quarter-farthing coins to make proper exchange between the two systems when larger numbers of coins were involved.