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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1590825, member: 41665&quot;]LOL this</p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1144&amp;lotIdNo=19005" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1144&amp;lotIdNo=19005" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1144&amp;lotIdNo=19005</a></p><p><br /></p><p>G.W. Capron was born circa 1804 in KY, appeared as the Head of Household on the census of 1860 in Houston, Harris, TX. He was a jeweler in 1860.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you saw this, presumably:</p><p><a href="http://stacksbowers.com/auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=258544" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stacksbowers.com/auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=258544" rel="nofollow">http://stacksbowers.com/auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=258544</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The most recent research on this mark comes from Russ Rulau, who wrote an article for Numismatic News that was published April 23, 2008. It attributes the mark to George Washington Capron, a Kentucky silversmith who traveled to Mississippi where he wed Elizabeth Perry, niece of Commodore Perry. The family moved to Republic of Texas and settled in Houston about 1840. The article shares a very interesting story about Capron and his part in the Miers expedition to Mexico. Since the latest-dated piece known with the Capron mark is 1861, Rulau suggests that there is a good case that all were marked in that year or later, in Texas, and after Texas seceded from the Union. This would place their manufacture squarely under the Confederacy, making them perhaps the only Civil War tokens from Texas. Rulau states no Civil War token has ever been reported from Texas, and he believes this one is a legitimate candidate. A copy of the article is included with the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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