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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 200490, member: 2100&quot;]There were political tokens issued for the south as well. I believe most, if not all of them were produced by Northern diesinkers who were sympathetic to the Southern cause. There were not many of them, perhaps a dozen different dies at most. They would have legends such as &quot;Wealth of the South/Rice, Tobacco, Sugar, Cotton&quot; or &quot;No Submission to the North&quot;. There were also some pacifist type tokens as well among the Patriotic series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slavery was really not a major issue as far as touching off the Civil War, and that is reflected in that only one cwt die mentions slavery - die 36 with the legend &quot;Liberty and No Slavery&quot;. Considering that there are over 500 patriotic dies, and hundreds, likely thousands of custom storecard dies, that is barely a mention. There were other patriotic ideals that were mentioned far more often.</p><p><br /></p><p>These Southern tokens tend to all be rare and rather pricey. I have one &quot;Wealth of the South&quot; token that is really not too hot, and rather dark, so I am not sure how well it will appear in a picture. The typical &quot;common&quot; variety of the &quot;Wealth of the South&quot; and &quot;No Submission to the North&quot; has an R8 rating, which means there are 5 to 10 known. An inexpensive low grade one lists for about $300, but they bring closer to $400-$500 on ebay. They go wayyyyy up from there. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as storecards, I have one from Covington, Kentucky; a St. Louis Missouri; and a Dedham, Tennessee. Dedham is a very tough town, rating a T8 on the town rarity scale (which goes from 1 to 10, but there are no 10s). I would have to check, but I am pretty sure that one is holed, and I was happy to pick it up for a couple hundred bucks. With these, passing on a less than perfect specimen could mean you blew the only shot at that variety in your lifetime.</p><p><br /></p><p>My son just bought a new scanner, but hasn&#039;t hooked it up yet, and my digital camera is worthless for coin photos. I&#039;ll pester him about getting it hooked up and will post some pics here when I am able (will have to figure that out too, as my past attempts were unsuccessful).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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