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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 537652, member: 4580&quot;]I like Civil War Tokens.&nbsp; They circulated just like money when nobody could lay their hands on any genuine money.&nbsp; Imagine merchants unable to make change...&nbsp; Well that didn&#039;t last long and many die sinkers began producing and selling merchant tokens called &#039;store cards,&#039; and later producing generic tokens which today are called &#039;patriotic&#039; tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The height of token production came in 1863 and most patriotics bear that date.&nbsp; No Civil War Token was ever struck by the U.S. Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is patriotic CWT 138/434a (R-1).&nbsp; It is MS-63 RB.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Larrymo123/McClellanCWTonBlackMat.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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