The pages listed above contain Civil War Patriotic tokens for sale. Each page lists the die numbers by type for those without access to the Fuld Patriotic book.
Last new tokens added: April 24, 2008
Last updated for sold items: May 14, 2008
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.
PRICE LIST 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 additional charges. 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. I have been working hard on want lists.
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.
RULAU PATRIOTIC NUMBERS:
I thought a word or two about Rulau's Patriotic listing as used in his Standard Catalog might help clear up a few thing. To save space Rulau only pictured Patriotic dies that were not used in the Store Card series. On page 447 he lists all Patriotic dies cross referenced to the Store Card dies. For example, die 2 which has no Store Card equivalent can be seen on page 434. However, again on page 447 you will see that die 1 is also die 1000 in the Store Card series so it can be seen on page 350.