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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 2704672, member: 38849&quot;]Wonder if the 12½c denomination means it was struck before 1857, when half cents disappeared from circulation?</p><p><br /></p><p>That conflicts with the fact that the Regiment was not formed until 1866, after half cents were long gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or was it merely to make them an even multiple, i.e., eight tokens for a dollar?</p><p><br /></p><p>=======</p><p>Anheuser-Busch as a company dates sometime after 1857, obviously:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Busch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Busch" rel="nofollow">Adolphus Busch</a>, a wholesaler who had immigrated to St. Louis from Germany in 1857, married Eberhard Anheuser&#039;s daughter, Lilly, in 1861. Following his service in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" rel="nofollow">American Civil War</a>, Busch began working as a salesman for the Anheuser brewery. Busch purchased D&#039;Oench&#039;s share of the company in 1869, and he assumed the role of company secretary from that time until the death of his father-in-law...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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