Here are my 19th century tokens- post yours! (HTTs, CWTs, storecards, etc.)
lordmarcovan
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Hey, 18th century tokens are fun, too!
(Even if most of 'em came from across the pond...)
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Forgot about my Feuchtwanger! (How did THAT happen?)
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Wilbur token SC-5a XF 40 (Pop 1/0)
^ Love that Antebellum Southern stuff!
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Here’s some of mine
Mr_Spud
Is this one?
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I'll add a couple. First F141-370b brass, McClellen MS65 (I hope for his sake that the token is not a good likeness):
and second F241-338a Copper MS66RB:
Yes!
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Thanks @lordmarcovan Here's another one. But he's a little beat up!
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )
A few of my CWT's that I have posted before. All are pop 1/0.
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Casual collector slowly building a collection....
Pretty cool!
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Yes, lotsa cool stuff in here.
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I can add a little too...
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...and a few store tokens of the same period...
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...and a couple of counterstamped coins too...
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...and...
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Mr_Spud
I think this civil war token is portraying such a powerful statement. I searched a long time to find one that you can actually read North on the one sleeve and South on the other shaking hands to signify the end of the war.
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I’ve shared this before, but seems appropriate for this thread……
Lincoln death token. Produced in 1865 so basically immediately after Lincoln was shot. In his grief, the engraver took some drugs and then decided to make a medal that seems to want to combine some of George Washington’s portrait features with Lincoln’s. At least that’s my theory.
Only rendition of our 16th president I’ve ever seen featuring a mohawk and rat tail……(both of which seem to me to be basically 19th century cut and pasted directly from classic Washington portraits)
MS 63
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Actually that specific token was issued well before the end of the war and is one of several patriotic Civil War tokens with pacifist sentiments that circulated alongside the majority pro-Union tokens. In fact the nickname for Civil War tokens during the war was "copperheads" which is also what the anti-war Democrats were called. The Copperhead faction actually embraced the term and often cut out Miss Liberty from large cents to wear as pins showing their affiliation. The journal of the Civil War Token Society (CWTS) was called "The Copperhead Courier" at one time before reconsideration prevailed. It is now called "Civil War Era Numismatics" to include sutler tokens & scrip and related Civil War numismatic items.
Here are a couple of the copperhead stick pins that the copperhead southern supporters wore. Both were made with cut-down large cent.
This one has lost is pin, but I have never seen another one.
Here is a nice example of the "king of Hard Times tokens." This pro-Jackson piece is listed as Low #1 and the sub varieties of it are listed as #1a, 1b etc. in Rulow.
Here's a second one I had before I bought the really nice one. This is not quite the same as the first one the obverse.
As far as my Peace Forever Token post goes, I do not care about the politics surrounding a coin. I do not buy coins for any political reason nor do I post anything to elicit political conversation. As far as me saying it signifies the end of the war should have been said better, to me in this day and age that is what it signifies to me and what we strive for Shake hands and peace forever. But thanks for the clarification.
This fits in somewhere
I used to have one of those.
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