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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;StevenHarden, post: 4413146, member: 67639&quot;][USER=19165]@physics-fan3.14[/USER] </p><p>[USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER] </p><p>[USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you all for your replies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since my original post I was doing some searching on Google for &quot;General Sherman Medals&quot; and ran across a listing on WorthPoint with a matching example of the piece I have.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The link to the WorthPoint listing is the following:</p><p><a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/early-medal-honoring-william-tecumseh-106155902" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/early-medal-honoring-william-tecumseh-106155902" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/early-medal-honoring-william-tecumseh-106155902</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The description provided on WorthPoint only gives basic information about the design and anecdotal information about when it was issued and for what purpose.&nbsp; WorthPoint also mentioned to go to Ebay and look at &quot;TE Collectibles&quot;, which I did, but was unable to locate this example.</p><p><br /></p><p>While fishing around on Ebay I did find an example of this that was uniface.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the link:</p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Civil-War-Era-Major-General-William-T-Sherman-Medal-Brass-30mm-Uniface-/124075337820?hash=item1ce377685c%3Ag%3AK-0AAOSwsQJeL1TC&amp;nma=true&amp;si=O75aK2GOaNVSBmyaLuSPo7L37nU%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;nordt=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Civil-War-Era-Major-General-William-T-Sherman-Medal-Brass-30mm-Uniface-/124075337820?hash=item1ce377685c%3Ag%3AK-0AAOSwsQJeL1TC&amp;nma=true&amp;si=O75aK2GOaNVSBmyaLuSPo7L37nU%253D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;nordt=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Civil-War-Era-Major-General-William-T-Sherman-Medal-Brass-30mm-Uniface-/124075337820?hash=item1ce377685c:g:K-0AAOSwsQJeL1TC&amp;nma=true&amp;si=O75aK2GOaNVSBmyaLuSPo7L37nU%3D&amp;orig_cvip=true&amp;nordt=true&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2557</a></p><p>The above example sold on Ebay on February 8th, 2020 (relatively recently) for $99.95.&nbsp; Again, note that the example sold was a uniface item.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the above information leads me to think that this is similar to Civil War Store Card tokens and Patriotic tokens that were sometimes issued with a common obverse design and varying reverse designs.&nbsp; This still does not necessarily give an answer as to when and why this was issued.&nbsp; I have not seen the particular reverse design on my example appearing on other examples, but that is a very interesting point.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious what any of you think about this information and what anyone else might be able to add to this.&nbsp; Again, any information is greatly appreciate and any discussion is encouraged.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank You[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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