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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 24703442, member: 101855&quot;]Recently this piece popped up on a dealer&#039;s fix price list, and I purchased it. It is a DeWitt AL 1864-33 in copper. It is rated as an R-8, estimated 5 to 10 known. It is also known in brass, white metal and silver. Each of those pieces are also rated R-8 which would put the total population at 20 to 40 pieces. This piece is also listed as a Civil War token, patriotic die combination 131/217a. PCGS graded it MS-63, Brown. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1577983[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Lincoln medal was also paired with a Union League reverse. I have that piece also. This is listed as DeWitt AL 1864-32 and as Patriotic Civil War token 131/479b. The rarity is similar to the previous piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1577988[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally the reverses were combined for another token, which is in DeWitt as U-1862-6. It is also listed as a Civil War token with the numbers 479/217. I don&#039;t own an example of this combination and will probably never go after it. This is a combination of the tokens shown above. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1577989[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This tokens were issued by the Union League of Philadelphia. The Union League was a political/patriotic organization which supported candidates who supported the Union cause during the Civil War. It was mostly a Republican organization although it did lend support to some pro-Union Democrats during the Civil War. It still exists today. Here is the Union Headquarters as looks today in Philadelphia. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1577992[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>E.C. Key and Sons made the dies for these tokens and probably the tokens as well. A member of the family, William Key worked at the Philadelphia Mint after the Civil War, during the era of George Morgan and Charles Barber. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that these pieces were made for the Union League members. There also some pieces that were struck for collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>I also have the die that was used to strike the Lincoln obverse. This is one of four known Civil War token dies that are known to exist. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1577993[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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