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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 600481, member: 2100&quot;]Hi Boss,</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Those tokens are actual items, no photoshop was involved. They belong to my second favorite series to collect, known as Bryan Money. I will guess that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 varieties. I started an album of Bryan Money on my page if you would like to see more of them. Those are the ones that I have purchased this year. I have more, but haven&#039;t had the time to bring them to the light of day and photograph them. Only a handful are listed as common, most are listed as scarce, rare, very rare, extremely rare, or unique.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; These pieces appeared during the presidential campaigns between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan. The campaign for the 1896 race was run during the midst of extremely difficult financial times, much worse even than what we are experiencing today. The government had printed all of the paper money that they had gold backing for, so they simply stopped printing money. This situation was caused in large part by the Act of 1873 which demonetized silver. Bryan wanted to allow silver to also be used as backing for paper money and get the printing presses running again. He wanted the silver to gold ratio set at 16 units of silver to equal 1 unit of gold, hence the 16:1 on many of these tokens. Bryan also wanted a silver dollar to contain a dollar&#039;s worth of silver. His opponents used that position in making these satirical pieces to exaggerate how big a silver dollar would become. These pieces also have ties to the movie &quot;The Wizard of Oz&quot;, which, while the author did not say so explicitly, has a high likelihood of being a story full of allegories to the 1896 financial crisis. If you haven&#039;t heard that story before, I&#039;ll be glad to relate it to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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