IT is months since many of us have used cash, but in the collector’s world, cash still counts.
The author of the book “Sapiens” describes money as a fictional reality as, in the past, there have been other types of fictional realities such as trade tokens.
The collection of the late Mr Tompkins, a school teacher from Rotherham who spent his spare time collecting trade tokens and amassed around 15,000, were included in a recent numismatic specialist auction…