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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;UniqueDesigns, post: 2161165, member: 17654&quot;]Civil War Tokens were not struck to U.S. Mint standards. Merchants needed change for transactions when CW era U.S. coinage was being hoarded. Tokens consigned by merchant may have been more closely watched for quality control, but, since the 3 year period they were needed was so short, some/many CWETs were struck willy nilly. The quality was not as important, IMO, as just having some change that they could buy from a die striker for multiple pieces for 1¢. Many pieces are so Rare, Unique 1 offs to fewer than 20 known to still exist, because there were numismatists back then who bought never before die mules from the makes for their collections. Others are Very Rare due to being Over struck on to previously made CW tokens or even over U.S. coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example I own of a Unique 1 Known so far Overstrike.</p><p>I studied this mule and with research discovered a New Previously Unknown Patriotic Die #48 had been used on a Broas Bakers Store Card.</p><p>My attribution was included in the 2015 Update of the Fuld Store Cards Book.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]416185[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the regular strike of the Broas as found normally, weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]416186[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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