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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 26602348, member: 101855"]One of my favorite Civil War token makers was Henry D. Higgins who made the Indiana primitives. Higgins made copy dies from tokens he liked, but his best creations were the dies he made himself from scratch. Higgins made eye glasses, brameters (farmers used them to predict the weather) and tokens. Here is his business store card [ATTACH=full]1695381[/ATTACH] Higgins was strongly pro-Union. Here was one of his patriotic tokens. The reverse is from a line of the Liberty Bell. [ATTACH=full]1695382[/ATTACH] Higgins copies the obverse die (left) from token that was made by the Scoville company (right). His copy dies always lost some detail. [ATTACH=full]1695383[/ATTACH] Here is another one. Higgins felt that he had add "CAPITAL" to make sure people knew what it was. [ATTACH=full]1695384[/ATTACH] The Schovel original. [ATTACH=full]1695385[/ATTACH] Higgins made a copy of the Monitor token. Here is his piece. [ATTACH=full]1695387[/ATTACH] Here is Higgins' token next to the original. [ATTACH=full]1695386[/ATTACH] Higgins was not known to the hobby until his granddaughter came forward in the 1950s with the story about how “she helped grandpa make the coins.” She quickly became a member of the Civil War Tokens Society and shared some stories. All Indiana primitives are scarce and most of them are worn. I was really happy when I acquired one in Mint State[/QUOTE]