The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 52, December 23, 2001, Article 7

CONTEMPORARY PERIODICAL TOKEN SEARCH

  In an article in the Winter 2001 issue of The Conder Token
  Collector's Journal, Richard Doty describes his latest
  research project.  "I began wondering what would happen
  if one were to make the eighteenth-century British magazine
  a cornerstone of token research.  In other words, what
  would happen if one took every available member of the
  genre, go over it with a fine-tooth comb for every mention
  of the token phenomenon from before its beginning until well
  past its end?  What would one find, and would it have been
  worth the effort?"

  "The eighteenth-century correspondence magazine was a
  marvelous invention, the equivalent of the twenty-first century
  electronic bulletin board and chat room.   You could find
  virtually anything between is covers, month after month,
  from a curious stone which fell from the sky in Bedfordshire
  to the proper method of harvesting potatoes in Kent to a
  curious seal found on Skye - to the latest token from
  Anglesey."

  "I'm just at the beginning of this research project, but it
  does seem worth pursuing, and I'll be sharing my findings
  from time to time."

  [It sounds like an interesting and rewarding project -
  It would be marvelous if more numismatic researchers had
  the time and patience for projects of such scope.  Best of
  luck!  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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