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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3185919, member: 72790&quot;]I am very skeptical of such items for several reasons. First anything associated with the South in the US Civil War is accorded great value whatever it is. A revolver, a saber, belt buckle, musket can have its value doubled or tripled by being provenanced to the Southern Confederacy. Secondly, if the date is 1860, that&#039;s a bit early for the South to be boasting of not surrendering to the North. South Carolina seceded on 12/20/,1860; no other Southern states until 1861 and Fort Sumter not until that April. Thirdly, the South was not in a technical position of minting anything more than a token number of jewelers medals, if a so inclined jeweler could be found. The three southern mints, Dahlonega, Charlotte and New Orleans were under federal control all through 1860 and federal mint workers were unlikely to be making dies and striking such medals after hours in 1860. Even after secession in the other states in 1861 what few existing metal working facilities were frantically making arms, not medals. The Southern Confederacy Confederate one cent piece was struck in Philadelphia and probably never circulated in the South during the war. Though some silver seated liberty half dollars were struck by the state of Louisiana in early 1861 they used the dies still worded and designed for the United States. A small batch&nbsp; was struck with a revamped reverse die for the Confederacy. Some souvenir copies were made after the war. The large number of patriotic tokens issued during the war were made in the North with Union patriotic slogans. I could be dead wrong about all this but, in short, I would be very cautious about this coin/medal being from the Civil war period itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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