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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mammoth29, post: 1815346, member: 36434&quot;]I believe you are correct, merchant tokens were issued and good only at said merchant.&nbsp; I do not have any merchant tokens, just Civil War tokens and Hard Times tokens.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>-Civil War tokens were privately minted and issued during the war due to the scarcity of government issued cents.&nbsp; I have examples of the store cards and patriotic tokens.</p><p>-Hard Times tokens were also struck privately and used as sort of unofficial currency for a while.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t pretend to know a lot about tokens as they are not my point of focus, this is just what I have learned over the last while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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