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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Larry Moran, post: 563473, member: 4580&quot;]<b>That is one amazing CWT artifact&nbsp; : )</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hi, cwtokenman...</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have Rulau except the small Hard times Token version.&nbsp; I have the Patriotic and Store Cards books and have plenty to do just collecting tokens from the years of the Civil War.&nbsp; ; )</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked up the 2002 value in Kanzinger and it&#039;s rather astronomical in any grade.&nbsp; : )</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you referring to Kanzinger, or does the big Rulau book also have values listed?&nbsp; I am a Civil War Token enthusiast, and no expert like you are.&nbsp; Heck, I did not know much about the Civil War until the tokens led me in that direction. Your variety was unknown to me, but tonight I learned about zouaves, Marshall House, Col. E.E. Ellsworth, James William Jackson, and more.</p><p><br /></p><p>VA103 is one of the few Civil War Tokens from a southern state, and the only one from Virginia according to Kanzinger and Fuld catalogs that I have handy here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are &#039;the last words&#039; of Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth: </p><p><br /></p><p><i>&#039;MY DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER,- The regiment is ordered to move across the river tonight. We have no means of knowing what reception we are to meet with. I am inclined to the opinion that our entrance to the city of Alexandria will be hotly contested, as I am just informed a large force has arrived there to-day. Should this happen, my dear parents, it may be my lot to be injured in some manner. Whatever may happen, cherish the consolation that I was engaged in the performance of a sacred duty; and to-night, thinking over the probabilities of the morrow and the occurrences of the past, I am perfectly content to accept whatever my fortune may be, confident that He who noteth even the fall of a sparrow will have some purpose even in the fate of one like me. My darling and ever-loved parents, good by, God bless, protect, and care for you.&nbsp;&nbsp; - ELMER.&#039; &quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I still don&#039;t understand the connection with the counterstamp by J.B. Schiller though.&nbsp; But I am listening...&nbsp; : )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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