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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 144504, member: 2100&quot;]The Fuld&#039;s developed a dual numbering style system for Civil War tokens, one for Patriotic tokens, and another for the store cards. The patriotics is essentially the two die numbers from the die pair used to make the token, followed by a lower case letter to designate the metal. If needed, additional lower case letters are added to designate special qualities such as a flip over double strike, plated, incuse and so on. The store card system is one which begins with a two letter abbreviation for the state of issue, followed by a three digit number to designate the city of issue. This number may occasionally be used more than once, but with a different state. Following that is an upper case (in need be 2 of them) letter to designate the merchant within that city. Usually the merchants are in alphabetical order, &quot;A&quot; is assigned to the first merchant. Next is a dash, followed by a single, double or triple digit number to designate the die pairing used for that particular token. Lastly, a lower case letter(s) to designate the metal used, and any special qualifiers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Fuld&#039;s system worked so well, and was reasonably expandable, many others created systems derived from the Fuld&#039;s system, incoporating at least the state letter identification and some sort of city identifier number.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hetrich and Guttag created an earlier CW token system (H&amp;G numbers) in which they arranged all of the tokens known to them in a logical sequence, and then basically assigned consecutive numbers to them. This system is rarely mentioned any more, except when old collections are found where ids were made long ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rulau created a system for pre-1900 U.S. tokens, as did Miller, Low and others. These systems typically bear the appropriate name in front of the number.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many other systems within exonumia, many covering only the small niche of someone&#039;s interest, such as individual state tokens, transits, tax, and nearly anything else that can be thought of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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