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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 94822, member: 2100&quot;]One can not get any rarer than one example, of which quite a number of single issues can claim. </p><p><br /></p><p>While not regular government issues, they did circulate widely as money when regular coinage was hoarded to the point commerce was becoming difficult. I would nominate Civil War tokens as the series with the highest number of rare issues. In just the patriotic series alone, I counted 131 id&#039;s that were listed as unique. In general, the patriotics are much more common, as they were the &quot;generic&quot; tokens. Patriotics also comprise only about 15 to 20 percent of all cwts, the merchant tokens generally being much rarer. I don&#039;t have hours to spend counting unique merchant tokens, but I checked just one prolific merchant issuer, and 157 varieties of his tokens were either R9 (2-4 known) or R10 (unique).</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have any cwts that are listed as unique, but I do have around 30 or so R9 rarity ones. I also have a couple dozen unlisted cwts, so some of those could possibly be unique.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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