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<p>[QUOTE="Pcunix, post: 1919320, member: 67806"]I picked up this recently because of a writeup at <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-civil-wqar-tokens.230292/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-civil-wqar-tokens.230292/">http://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-civil-wqar-tokens.230292/</a> that talked about these specifically.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]329573[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329574[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The assertion that these were the cause of 1864 legislation against private coinage seemed unlikely to me even after finding that Wikipedia had the same story. I wrote up my concerns on my blog ( <a href="http://coins.aplawrence.com/2014/05/civil-war-tokens-story-that-cannot-be.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.aplawrence.com/2014/05/civil-war-tokens-story-that-cannot-be.html" rel="nofollow">http://coins.aplawrence.com/2014/05/civil-war-tokens-story-that-cannot-be.html</a>) and after I posted I found this article which shared all my doubts and more: <a href="http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/</a><a href="http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Still an interesting coin even if the stories are apocryphal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pcunix, post: 1919320, member: 67806"]I picked up this recently because of a writeup at [url]http://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-civil-wqar-tokens.230292/[/url] that talked about these specifically. [ATTACH=full]329573[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]329574[/ATTACH] The assertion that these were the cause of 1864 legislation against private coinage seemed unlikely to me even after finding that Wikipedia had the same story. I wrote up my concerns on my blog ( [url]http://coins.aplawrence.com/2014/05/civil-war-tokens-story-that-cannot-be.html[/url]) and after I posted I found this article which shared all my doubts and more: [url]http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/[/url][url]http://www.cwtsociety.com/AOTM/[/url] Still an interesting coin even if the stories are apocryphal.[/QUOTE]
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