I'm aware that many different tokens were made during the Civil War period. I came across this coin and couldn't identify it. Any help out there? Value?
Looks like a Washington medal of some sort. If you can post the weight, diameter and composition someone may be able to identify it.
I looks like a copper civil war token to me. Probably circulated as a one cent piece at the time. I don't know what the identity if this particular design is though but I have seen one like it before.
Same size as a penny (indian head fo example) and copper. Tried to put it on scale with me and subtract my weight, but nogo :rolling:. I would venture to guess it similar in weight to Indian Head penny. Thanks for response.
Hmmm. Like Camaro said, it could be a CWT. We have some CWT collectors here that may be able to shed some light on it.
So, what are plain Jane Civil War tokens going for? I picked up a few others (see another of my recent posts for one I believe was made cloely to the resemblance of an Indian Head penny) from my uncle. Is this something I should hide in a hole in my back yard, or stick in a bubblegum machine (guess that dates me!)
Hello again tpanc13, This is another patriotic Civil War token. It is id 119/398a, and it has an R-1 rarity rating, meaning that over 5000 are known to exist. Values in Kanzinger's 2002 book are listed at $12 in F/VF, $15 in XF and $20 in Unc. For a brief moment, I thought there was the possibility that this could have been a quite rare flip over double strike variety (R-9, 2-4 known), but then I realized that the devices that are visible are mirrored images, so that indicates clashed dies, not a double strike. In case you had not noticed, the lower point of Washington's bust is visible just to the right of the top point of the star, and oak leaves are readily visible on the inside of the wreath from 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock. These dies were also made by Emil Siegel.
CWTOKENMAN...thank you for the full description. I just returned from EBAY where I also found it at : http://cgi.ebay.com/1863-CWT-Civil-...14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:2|240:1318 You experts see a lot more than I see when looking at coins. I really appreciate the detail. I never considered an "error" coin -- I didn't even know what a non-error coin was supposed to look like.
