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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ExoMan, post: 2814177, member: 72588&quot;]While this Monitor piece is listed by Sullivan, among other political medalets, so are a great many of the Civil War tokens, listed by the Fulds&#039;. Thus, I don&#039;t see it as an either/or situation. In the broad sense, a great many tokens from this era were political and/or patriotic in nature. Granted that many of the small, cent-sized tokens circulated as specie or money, a great many of the rarer CWT&#039;s survive in pristine condition and were obviously struck with collectors in mind, not merchants.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another one of my favorites; this one, listed by both Sullivan as a political AND Fuld as a patriotic. Note that this piece, dated 1861, is silvered brass and larger in diameter than the Monitor token. It&#039;s long been dubbed &quot;The Pilgrim&quot; - likely due to the hat and/or the soldier&#039;s resemblance to John Wayne, a.k.a. &quot;The Duke.&quot; Wayne wore a similar outfit in one of his cavalry movies, as I recall.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]659278[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]659279[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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