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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 22373047, member: 101855&quot;]Here are the Civil War Token (CWT) Monitor tokens. There are more than this with other reverses and in other metals, but all of the obverse dies are represented.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 237/423</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544653[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 238/402. This one of the Indiana Primitive varieties. Henry Higgins, who was from the South Bend area, made these. It is believed that he made the Monitor die by pressing token variety 237 into soft steel. The resulting copy was decent, but it had less detail.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544654[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 238/405. This is another Indiana Primitive variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544655[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 239/422. This and the 237 variety were made by the Scoville Company.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544656[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 240/337.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544659[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 241/336. Rusty dies were the rule for these pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544657[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fuld numbers 257/311. I included this one because there is a Monitor in the background. This is a fairly common Civil War token variety, but it&#039;s hard to find one with any or very much red on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544661[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a very poor example of the Merrimack variety. It was de-listed as a Civil War token because it was made circa 1905, well after the war. It was made from iron that was recovered from the Merrimack years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>I &quot;missed the boat&quot; on this one. Decent ones (None are great; it as not well made) used to sell for $1,100. Now they are well over $3,000 and climbing when you can find them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544666[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a variety catalog photo of a decent example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544669[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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