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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lawtoad, post: 1961494, member: 31685&quot;]<font face="Arial">The 1864 piece is a Civil War token.&nbsp; During the Civil War there was a shortage of small change and privately issued tokens were circulated to substitute for the lack of coins.&nbsp; This is a &quot;Patriotic&quot; token (usually depicting some patriotic scene or motto), other tokens, referred to as &quot;store cards&quot;, bore the name of merchants (kind of advertising if you will) and circulated.&nbsp; There are a myriad of designs and varying rarity of these pieces.&nbsp; I am not an expert, but I am sure someone on this forum who is will weigh in on the piece and correct any wrong information I wrote.&nbsp; The other piece you have is a Philippines 20 Centavos KM# 182 issued from 1937-1945 in the Philippines under U.S. Administration.&nbsp; It is silver 0.7500 fineness (ASW 0.0964g) </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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