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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3188388, member: 72790&quot;]When was this J.B. Schiller the proprietor of this establishment? The token may have been made prior to secession early in 1861 or after New Orleans was back under Union control, April of 1862. It may not be accurate to call this store token a Confederate token if issued before secession or after its return to US authority. Frankly, given the industrial capacity of the South I am rather doubtful that any Confederate tokens were made (in the Confederacy, anyway) during the war. Confederate shinplasters in paper covered all the small denominations for small change and the metals used in these tokens, especially brass, had a far more important use (percussions caps) than store or patriotic tokens. Keep in mind that almost anything that gets labelled Confederate, bayonets, muskets, swords, belt buckles, cartridge boxes, soldier ID discs, has much greater market value than otherwise and I am skeptical about anything that is labelled as being from the Southern Confederacy. There are certain countries that have discovered that one can take 10 cents worth of brass and transmogrify it into a hundred dollars of worth of collectible antiquity faster than a chicken on a June bug.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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