Women In Numismatics: token issuers?
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Can you think of any female issuers of tokens in the 1800s (Hard Times tokens, Civil War
tokens, etc.)?
I know of women who were influential in the lives of male token issuers --- Francis
X. Koehler’s mother was a jewelry engraver and taught him that art; Koehler would go
on to produce sutler tokens and some Civil War tokens, among others.
I’m familiar with a few women who owned businesses that issued Civil War tokens,
for example Helena Hertrich’s Freeport Brewery in Illinois . . . Elizabeth Heinzmann’s
dining saloon in Cincinnati . . . “Mrs. J. Tate” (actually Mrs. S.J. Tate), a milliner in
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin . . . Mrs. A. Thomson and Son, stationers, of Indianapolis . . .
A. Stringer (dry goods, millinery, and dress making), of Detroit . . . M.A. Van Houten,
milliner, of Columbus, Ohio . . . a “Mrs. Reed” of Ravenna, Ohio, who dealt in millinery
and fancy goods. . . . any others?
tokens, etc.)?
I know of women who were influential in the lives of male token issuers --- Francis
X. Koehler’s mother was a jewelry engraver and taught him that art; Koehler would go
on to produce sutler tokens and some Civil War tokens, among others.
I’m familiar with a few women who owned businesses that issued Civil War tokens,
for example Helena Hertrich’s Freeport Brewery in Illinois . . . Elizabeth Heinzmann’s
dining saloon in Cincinnati . . . “Mrs. J. Tate” (actually Mrs. S.J. Tate), a milliner in
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin . . . Mrs. A. Thomson and Son, stationers, of Indianapolis . . .
A. Stringer (dry goods, millinery, and dress making), of Detroit . . . M.A. Van Houten,
milliner, of Columbus, Ohio . . . a “Mrs. Reed” of Ravenna, Ohio, who dealt in millinery
and fancy goods. . . . any others?
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