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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;harley bissell, post: 3075913, member: 88212&quot;]CWT designers were civilians. Their only goal was to sell their product. A company in the north tried to design and make coins for the south. When he was informed that completing the contract would be construed as treason he buried the dies. They were dug up and used to make confederate coins years later. In the case of the Monitor token he released them. The later issue was not the same because it was copied and made by someone else. 1864 tokens are rare because that was the year CWT were outlawed. From that point forward CWT had to be dated 1863 or earlier so the makers quickly changed their dies to make them legal. In some cases the 1864 was the first issue and the 1863 was the second for that legality reason.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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