Civil War Tokens .... any Southern ones?

topstuf

I don't think I've seen store tokens from the south.
Did the confederate states stores do this, too?

tokenpro

There is one merchant from Alabama, several from Tennessee, one from Louisiana (a counterstamp, not a countermark), several from border states and a good handful of Patriotics with Southern sympathies or leanings (especially the issues of Benjamin True of Cincinnati).

streeter

I've got an 1862 au Cincinnati store card one cent token with a 90° rotated reverse on a bid board in SoCal now. Nice coin & color & 4 diamonds.
22 bucks & you own it. I didn't know they were scarce.

coinsarefun

I'm pretty sure I have a few but, the only one I have handy to post is a double mule merchant card.
The Peabody hotel in Memphis was quite famous. Below is a quote from a website here
I'll look for some and post it here
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Following the Civil War, Memphis began the process of rebuilding. In 1869, Colonel Robert C. Brinkley opened a 75-room hotel which contained private baths, ballroom, saloon, and lobby. Brinkley planned to name the hotel after himself but when he learned that his dear friend, philanthropist George Peabody, had died, he christened it The Peabody. Its lobby was soon filled with Memphis business and society leaders as well as plantation owners and riverboat gamblers. Presidents Andrew Johnson and William McKinley, Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jubal Early were guests. Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, lived there in 1870 when he was president of a Memphis-based insurance company.
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Oldhoopster

@streeter said:
I've got an 1862 au Cincinnati store card one cent token with a 90° rotated reverse on a bid board in SoCal now. Nice coin & color & 4 diamonds.
22 bucks & you own it. I didn't know they were scarce.

Store cards from the southern states are scarce.

Cincinnati had a large number of merchants that issued store cards. Some are scarce, but many are quite common (relative to other CWT Store Cards). Sounds like you have a nice example, however.

topstuf

Was Ohio in the Confederacy?

coinsarefun

@topstuf said:
Was Ohio in the Confederacy?

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Hey there.......whatch it, I'm from Cleveland

tokenpro

Several other Southern states had merchants that issued pre-Civil War (Miller) merchants tokens including, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, etc. similar to the Ohio Miller-era token pictured above -- I just listed the Civil War issuing Southern States as questioned in the OP title.

Boosibri

Wealth of the South

Smudge

@Boosibri said:
Wealth of the South

There is that one showing cotton and tobacco, I think. Neither make good tokens. Edit to add sugar and rice. Still no help.

tokenpro

Those crops may not make good tokens (ends up kind of sticky similar to using Karo Syrup as a binder) but they do bring decent money in vf on up. The Wealth Of The South series was struck by the aforementioned Benjamin True

coinsarefun

I bought this one years back. Now they have gone very high in price.
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DCW

coinsarefun

@tokenpro said:
There is one merchant from Alabama, several from Tennessee, one from Louisiana (a counterstamp, not a countermark), several from border states and a good handful of Patriotics with Southern sympathies or leanings (especially the issues of Benjamin True of Cincinnati).

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I’ve had this Stephan Douglas for president medal for years and could never find much about it.
PCGS calls it a restrike but I’ve never seen the original?
Also is this by the same Benjamin True of Cincinnati? I’ve seen similar depictions of him on other tokens but this looks a bit more detailed and makes him look like Beethoven!
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