Tigroney Short Guide: CRONEBANE HALFPENNY TOKENS: A QUICK GUIDE TO COUNTERFEIT COINS

Tigroney Short Guides are  a series of quick reference books for specialists or niche areas of interest.  The next in the series Cronebane Halfpenny Tokens is a quick identification key to all the known counterfeit tokens that were produced between 1789 and 1816.  The tokens were used by the Irish Associated Mining Company based in county Wicklow in Ireland to pay their workers during the coinage shortages during the reign of King George III.  

The Cronebane halfpenny become the most well known and most widely  circulated Condor or trade token with 1.67 million original tokens produced by Mathew Boulton at his Soho Works in Birmingham, with an estimated  3.0 to 4.5 million counterfeits tokens produced afterwards.  This new key allows the none-specialist coin collector to rapidly identify these interesting and affordable coins.

Cronebane Halfpenny Tokens: A Quick Guide to Counterfeit Coins published by Tigroney Press in their Short Guide Series is due out in June 2017.  For further information contact tigroneypress@gmail.com