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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1248385, member: 4703&quot;]During the Civil War there was a serious shortage of small change, and many private companies and organizations produced tokens with patriotic slogans, which were used in lieu of official money.&nbsp; There were various versions of the legend &quot;The Federal Union Must Be Preserved&quot; which appears on yours, and both the Indian Head obverse, and the horse &amp; rider reverse were common, sometimes appearing together and sometimes with different opposite sides.&nbsp; Search &quot;Civil War Tokens&quot; on EBay to see a number of examples.&nbsp; Sometimes the Heritage Auctions site also has examples.&nbsp; CWTs are heavily collected.&nbsp; Although most were produced in the North, extolling the union, there are examples from the Confederacy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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