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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CheetahCats, post: 1360253, member: 23874&quot;]Here are a few more, this time Hard Times tokens.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were struck during the 1830s and early 1840s. As with the Civil War Tokens and Patriotics, there was a shortage of circulating US coinage at the time. Merchants made up for these shortages by having their own private coinages struck, and these were used in commerce in place of U.S. coinage. Much more cruder than later issues, these coins were struck sometimes by hand, without collars, and sometimes on poorly rolled flans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also as with the rarer CWTs and Patriotics, those Hard Times tokens which are rarer and/or in high-demand oftentimes command hundreds or thousands of dollars for the better and the rarest of specimens.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]158779.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]158783.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]158781.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]158780.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Many Hard Times tokens also had political messages. Others were counterstamped U.S. emissions.&nbsp; An example is below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]158782.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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