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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4592334, member: 66&quot;]One comment, he wasn&#039;t &quot;granted&quot; permission to coin them, he simply did and there was no law at the time to forbid it.&nbsp; Same as for the issuers of all the other hard times tokens.&nbsp; There was a shortage of coinage for change and some merchants stepped in to fill the local needs.&nbsp; Same thing happened with the civil war tokens.&nbsp; There was no law forbidding the issuance of tokens to be used as money until 1863.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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