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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Circus, post: 2194343, member: 51195&quot;]Well so far here is the first posted answer that I got on the Civil war talk forum, Sort of what I was thinking with the letter stamp style!</p><p>The impression of the item is that it is a modern fake/reproduction/curio collector piece....</p><p><br /></p><p>Very rare that you see anything of the period stamped with &quot;CSA&quot;, and/or a correlating war time date such as this... &quot;Gen Lee&quot; rather than more frequently used &quot;R.E. Lee&quot;.... These are common traits with folks trying to peddle off something that it isnt... It may very well be on a period coin.. That&#039;s part of the ruse... and attempt to imply validity to the item since the coin is old..... ID coins and tokens were more frequently found engraved, not metal stamped...(post war veteran ladder badges are something different) The font stampings used on this are of a modern pattern.. not one that was of typical use in that period... The shanks of period die stamps were normally squared... You can see the oval impression on several of the letters here that were deeply impressed... that&#039;s a modern type.. Also note that the stamped depression areas completely lack any pitting, corrosion and ground action like the rest of the coin displays... which confirms it was added onto it much much later.. I would pass on that item...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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