Civil War Tokens

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Prices in Bold and Underlined are now available at a 10% discount from the listed price.  The newly added items are in PURPLE.


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July 18th Auction With Photos Now Available

And don't forget to see my items on eBay as well

Last new tokens added: July 01, 2009

New items were added Wednesday to the following categories: Patriotic, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin Civil War tokens, So-Called Dollars and Slabbed Tokens. 

Last updated for sold items: July 03, 2009

Featured Items

Charleston Slave Hire Badges South Carolina Slave Tags

1840 Servant - $2,550

1857 Porter - $2,150

1856 Servant - $2,350

1861 Porter - $2,750

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Steve Hayden    PO Box 22514    Charleston, SC  29413        Phone/FAX (843) 973-4556 

E-mail civilwartokens@aol.com to be notified of future updates

WEB SITE TERMS:

Order by phone, fax, mail or e-mail.  Send me your e-mail address if you would like to receive future price lists electronically.  Please add $2.00 to orders under $50.00 for postage and handling, orders over $50.00 are sent free of charges charge to United States destinations.  Fourteen day return privilege for any reason.  All items are guaranteed genuine and as attributed.  I am always interested in purchasing collections or single tokens.  Send tokens for an offer or a listing for an estimate. I am also accepting consignments for future mail bid sales, write for terms.  Send me your want lists.

SHOW / AUCTION SCHEDULE:

July 18, 2009 Mail / Phone Bid Auction Mail / Phone Bid Auction
August 5 to 9, 2009 Los Angeles, California (table 625) ANA World's Fair of Money
September 24 to 26, 2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (table 739) Whitman Coin & Collectibles Expo

COMPOSITION OF CIVIL TOKENS:

Civil War tokens were manufactured in a number of different metallic compositions as well as rubber.  In the cataloging of these tokens the composition is indicated by a lower case letter at the end of the Fuld number.  The following is a list of the codes used.

a          Copper
b          Brass
c          Nickel (Has been removed from the latest book as actually German Silver)
d          Copper-Nickel
e          White Metal
f           Silver
g          Lead
h          Hard Rubber
i           Zinc (Has been removed from latest book as actually Tin Plated)
j           German Silver
k          Gilt
m         Tin (Usually plated brass, formerly listed as Zinc)

CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC vs. STORE CARDS:

Regular issue US coinage was hoarded during the Civil War restricting merchant's ability to make small change.  Some merchants had tokens made to give out as change in their stores.  If you ordered the least expensive tokens you would receive a combination of two existing dies, usually of a patriotic nature or similar to a US cent, these are called Patriotic Civil War Tokens.  If you had more to spend you could have one or two dies custom made for you with information specific to your business (i.e. location, occupation, specialties, etc.) these are called Civil War Store Cards.

RARITY RATINGS:

The rarity scale for Civil War tokens is listed below.  Most collectors collect by town, merchant or die. Very few try to get one of each die combination and metal composition.  So value is determined more by supply and demand than by individual rarity.  Additionally, more than a few pieces have incorrect rarity ratings (both over and under rated) in current references due to outdated information, hoards, mistakes or typo's.  

R1        Very Common more than 5,000 estimated to exist
R2        Common 2,000 to 4,999 estimated to exist
R3        500 to 1,999 estimated to exist
R4        200 to 499 estimated to exist
R5        Scarce 75 to 199 estimated to exist
R6        Very Scarce 20 to 74 estimated to exist
R7        Rare 10 to 19 estimated to exist
R8        Very Rare 5 to 9 estimated to exist
R9        Extremely Rare 2 to 4 estimated to exist
R10      Unique only one estimated to exist

LINKS:

http://www.cwtsociety.com  The site of the Civil War Token Society.

http://www.exonumia.com  This site has an extensive link page to other exonumia web sites.

http://www.medalcollectors.org  This is the site of the Medal Collectors of America and contains much useful information.

 

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