The Flag of Our Union Token

The Flag Of Our Union, 1863 Civil War Token. This is not the error variety. A little worn but still very nice.

 

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A token of that age and showing it's character, who could not like it. Nice one

 

A token of that age and showing it's character, who could not like it. Nice one

 

Love civil war tokens. They are such a window into peoples minds in that day and age. Until I got to looking at them more in depth, I didn’t realize there was such a variety of them. I think yours is one of the coolest.

 

Civil War tokens only tell half the story.

 

I love the design

 

This is the second one of the sane that I own. I also have the error variety if this one. I find the error to be very cool.

 

Here’s a Spoot error. They misspelled spot.

 

Here's mine. Yours is still much nicer.

 

If you have one of these in your collection, you can’t go wrong.

 

The story stem from Union general John Dix. After the Union took New Orleans, Dix issued a order to shoot any man who tried to tear down the Union flag. Dix was too old to be a field general. He headed up the leadership is occupied areas.

Most of the “shoot him on the spoot” pieces I have seen have been damaged. I sold one nice one when I was a dealer. I have been looking for one, but the prices in auctions have high when I bid. I thought $100 plus the buyers’ fee was a credible bid, but it wasn’t.