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<p>[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 5178989, member: 102103"]Most of the one's I've seen were Civil War Era. Did you mean then or earlier?</p><p>In the UK merchant tokens were very common from the late 1700s to early 1800s as well. Merchant tokens tend to show up whenever the convertibility of paper money is suspended (Napoleonic Wars in the UK, Civil War in the US) as that drives minor silver money out of circulation. Or in remote places like pre-Dominion Canada where it took a long time for adequate silver money to diffuse into the economy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Eidolon, post: 5178989, member: 102103"]Most of the one's I've seen were Civil War Era. Did you mean then or earlier? In the UK merchant tokens were very common from the late 1700s to early 1800s as well. Merchant tokens tend to show up whenever the convertibility of paper money is suspended (Napoleonic Wars in the UK, Civil War in the US) as that drives minor silver money out of circulation. Or in remote places like pre-Dominion Canada where it took a long time for adequate silver money to diffuse into the economy.[/QUOTE]
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