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I have nothing to compare this to. I assume the obverse is severe die cracking, unless they made all of them this way. The reverse is superposed on a concave strike of the obverse. Does anyone know where I can find info, icluding value, on this token? Thanks, George
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here is a link to a token/store card site could help you possibly
Its a store card right B.J, I have read about them but never actually held one. If it is then from what I read, it was during the Civil War and people were hoarding coins (sound familiar) and the reason for this hoarding was the amount of script or Green Backs flooded the economy and hard currrency or Gold, Silver, and yes even copper were in short supply. So the merchants coined their own tokens (store cards) and these were used to barter for goods usually within the community. So a good example would be that I am a farmer and I have 20 extra bushels of Corn, I don't need all 20 so I take them to the local Pie Baker named Broas and he takes the corn and gives me 20 store cards in exchange ( I don't need 20 pies) and then I have credit at his store. It became so popular that these became a Micro-economic currency , think locally as it were.
Thank you all for the information. I knew that they were used during the Civil War due to the shortage of coinage. Oddly enough, when the big cent search was on (couple of years back), I found another (different) in a roll of Lincoln memorials.
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