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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 561491, member: 17919&quot;]Are you sure about that? I don&#039;t think that Civil War Tokens were accepted by too many banks, because they were not coin of the realm, and were not made of a precious metal. They were just emergency tokens that were put into circulation because Uncle Sam&#039;s own coins were being hoarded for their metal value. Furthermore, the issue and use of these tokens was prohibited by the Act of 1864, which was enacted in large part because merchants in New York (and probably elsewhere) had refused to redeem tokens that they, themselves, had issued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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