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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 80501, member: 2100&quot;]Hi Ron, sorry to take so long to see your post, working way too many hours to have much of a life.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have what is known as a U.S. Civil War Store Card token. While Milwaukee had quite a few issuers of such tokens, and many of them with multiple varieties, your token is the sole variety for that merchant. It is Fuld id # WI 510S-1a, and has an R5 rarity (on a scale of 1 to 10). The reverse (eagle) die is known as die # 1194. The R5 rarity indicates that there are between 75 to 200 examples known of this token. That is kind of a &quot;medium scarcity&quot; rating for cwts. Value for circulated grades does not change much, listing at $60 in F/VF and $80 in XF. Unc value is shown at $150. Values are from the most current book available, dated 2002.</p><p><br /></p><p>This token was produced by John Marr, 8 Wisconsin Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. John Marr, associated in business with Peter L. Mossin, produced virtually all of Milwaukee&#039;s Civil War Store cards as well as most of Wisconsin&#039;s and a few in Minnesota and Illinois. Their tokens are on thick, broad planchets with upset rims, pronounced denticles, and high relief striking. The workmanship is excellent. The firm also produced a small amount of Patriotic Civil War tokens, all of which are scarce/rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wish to purchase your own reference books for Civil War tokens, there are three books that are necessities:</p><p><br /></p><p>U.S. Civil War Store Cards, 2nd edition, by George and Melvin Fuld. hard cover, about 650 pages. sales on ebay, when offered, usually go between $45 and $80. I checked Amazon once, they wanted $140.</p><p><br /></p><p>Patriotic Civil War tokens, also by George and Melvin Fuld. hard cover, about 360 pages. sales on ebay are more frequent than for the store card book, and prices are usually in the $15 to $35 range.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Civil War Token Collectors Guide by Bryon Kanzinger. soft or hard cover. I have both (actually 4 copies between home and work) but I prefer the softcover as I flip thru it quite often. I believe full list is $27, but can be had for around $20 on ebay, perhaps even slightly less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do NOT buy the small black softcover books about Civil War tokens, also by the Fulds. Those books are of such an abbreviated nature, that they have very little value to a collector IMO.</p><p><br /></p><p>As long as you are not in any huge rush to identify your tokens (my time is very limited, unfortunately) I would be glad to help you out, and I do enjoy doing it. I have over 100 reference books just on tokens and other exonumia. While I can cover many types of tokens, there are still many types not yet covered.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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