It's February 12, Lincoln's birthday. Let's look at the Lincoln Civil War Token varieties.
BillJones
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It's February 12, Lincoln's birthday. I thought that it might be interesting to look at the images of Lincoln on Civil War tokens.
The cut-off for 1860 campaign tokens was arbitrary. For whatever reason George and Melvin Fuld decided to include the Benjamin True - John Stanton Wealth of the South series, which was first issued in 1860, in the CWT series. Other 1860 tokens which are CWT size were excluded. The reason was that the Fulds set the dates for the CWT series from 1861 to 1864, but the made an exclusion for the Wealth of South series. Here are the two 1860 "Wealth of the South" Lincoln tokens. Both of these varieties are rare.
I think that this example of #506 was issued during the 1860 presidential campaign because it is holed.
The rest of the Lincoln CWTs from 1864. Here is #124. This obverse and the following one are moderately scarce.
#125 is generally believed to be a later die state of #124
Fuld #126 is always softly struck. This piece is in AU condition. This piece is also moderately scarce.
Fuld #127 is the most common Lincoln CWT variety when it is paired with the "OK" reverse. Years ago a retired dealer showed up at a winter FUN show with over 100 of these tokens, all in AU to Unc.
#128 features a head punch of a Lincoln portrait that would be used on #131A. This variety is only slightly scarce. The piece shown here is a "made for 19th century collectors'" piece that is gold plated.
If there is interest I will continue to cover the Lincoln CWT set.
The cut-off for 1860 campaign tokens was arbitrary. For whatever reason George and Melvin Fuld decided to include the Benjamin True - John Stanton Wealth of the South series, which was first issued in 1860, in the CWT series. Other 1860 tokens which are CWT size were excluded. The reason was that the Fulds set the dates for the CWT series from 1861 to 1864, but the made an exclusion for the Wealth of South series. Here are the two 1860 "Wealth of the South" Lincoln tokens. Both of these varieties are rare.
I think that this example of #506 was issued during the 1860 presidential campaign because it is holed.
The rest of the Lincoln CWTs from 1864. Here is #124. This obverse and the following one are moderately scarce.
#125 is generally believed to be a later die state of #124
Fuld #126 is always softly struck. This piece is in AU condition. This piece is also moderately scarce.
Fuld #127 is the most common Lincoln CWT variety when it is paired with the "OK" reverse. Years ago a retired dealer showed up at a winter FUN show with over 100 of these tokens, all in AU to Unc.
#128 features a head punch of a Lincoln portrait that would be used on #131A. This variety is only slightly scarce. The piece shown here is a "made for 19th century collectors'" piece that is gold plated.
If there is interest I will continue to cover the Lincoln CWT set.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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Years ago a retired dealer showed up at a winter FUN show with over 100 of these tokens, all in AU to Unc.
Cool thread. Do you remember how much the dealer was asking for the tokens?
<< <i>Years ago a retired dealer showed up at a winter FUN show with over 100 of these tokens, all in AU to Unc.
Cool thread. Do you remember how much the dealer was asking for the tokens? >>
It was a while ago, but $40 to $45 seems to stick in my head. When I started collecting CWTs in the 1990s, the "Lincoln - OK" variety was selling in red and brown Unc. for $10 retail. Times have changed!
So far I only have one civil war token,
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Great set of Lincoln patriotics @BillJones! I love the slogan on Fuld-126, so much so that I picked up a silver! This piece is rated R9 but is unique at PCGS and NGC.
I've been looking into this piece and iit looks like this may have been done by Montgomery Burr. Ken Bauer's CWToken.com doesn't indicate a die sinker for the obverse but lists the reverse as "Burr's Freedom (small)". This site provides the full name for Montgomery Burr. It would be great to keep track of all fo Burr's pieces.
Interesting how much the images vary between artists...Cheers, RickO
Definitely. It makes for interesting collecting of Lincolniana. For some reason there seems to be many more different views of Lincoln than Washington.