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Hello! Good to see a fellow 17th century uk token fan. In the references I have (Williamson and the Norweb books) it is down as the Mercers' Arms, so Waterman was presumably a Mercer. In Williamson it says "he was Mayor in 1665 and again in 1681. Sarah, wife of Francis Waterman, was buried in Faversham Church, 1694, and Francis himself in 1707." I really should photograph and post a few of mine here and intend to soon. These tokens are wonderful, a little record of 'ordinary' people rather than Royals. There are so many different types, and if not in a pristine condition, can be picked up on ebay for a reasonable sum. Saying that, I've been outbid on 90% of them and end up with the dregs! I do usually bid £13 though and only go up if the token is really special. Now I've got about 200 of them and only bid on those with pictures or local to me. I love the old spellings of places; was this the result of distant mintings(apparently most dies made in London) or just phonetic pronunciation? These tokens are pretty rough and dark, and often don't look great in photos but here's one from "Margitt" in Kent (Margate). Chas 'n' Dave called it that, so it's pronounciation is consistant over hundreds of years! sorry only had a wide lens! Here's the whole tray, OOF except the front row, sorry... Cheers Jean! For prompting me to stop lurking and actually post something!

Uncleaned? How can they claim that?

Hello from the uk. I've never been into modern uk coins but had a few world ones when I was a child, I particularly liked the irish ones we'd get in change as they were similar sized to uk ones ; I remember the beautiful designs compared to ours. Later, I would look in shops' 10p boxes and have a few hundred different ones from that time that I now never look at. First I'd go for anything I didn't have, then only if they had a nice design as I got more discerning. They seemed so interesting in comparison to the local stuff, in looks as well as the geographical and historical interest. One day I saw an ad in a coin magazine for early world coins, a catalogue from Robert Tye, and my world pivoted. Here was an incredible illustrated list of treasures from many cultures and empires from the beginning of coinage onward, with many historical stories for context, and many very affordable. These were the coins never usually seen in shops, sometimes crude but so fascinating. This got me into asian coins and I haven't looked back. His book "Early World Coins and Early Weight Standards" is available, and online I think, it's well worth a look! It's a bit like his catalogues were. He is my hero, because he open'd a door to a whole new world of Coinage that I had no idea was there. It's given me years of pleasure ever since. I Never stop learning! Thankyou Rob.. Now I have a many many ancient and old coins, and the 20thC stuff is in the loft....

The love of liberty brought them there. I love their symbol with the ship, beach, plough, palm and dove.

A beautiful cabinet with impressive coins, looks so neat and minimal with no labels. Mine look such a mess compared, with tags under and stickers next to the holes. I have Peter Nichols ones with, I assume, woollen felt in. Hope I don't damage the felt by putting all those rough ancient coins in them...! I'm just wondering to myself, I did put them in worse side down didn't I?

I was once asked while in hospital if I'd "had a movement" I genuinely didn't know what they meant and had to have it explained! Maybe these two on the reverse are in a communal, Roman syle toilet! Gaul, Suessiones tribe- not my coin (mine doesn't show it so well)

Here is another Danube imitation (tribute?) Drachm 2.68g 15.89mm .Lovely curly hair one side, and pert little breasts and clown shoes on the other!