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(1860-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-600E-11a, Stockman & Co. TN

Strike Type

Coin Details

Year
1860
Denomination
Store Cards
Strike Type
Regular Strike
Series
Civil War Store Cards
Designer
Various private die sinkers including John Stanton, William Bridgens, and others
Composition
Copper
Weight
4.67g
Diameter
19mm
Edge
Plain

Description

Stockman & Co. of Tennessee produced this token as a cent substitute during the wartime coin shortage. Tennessee was divided during the Civil War. Each unique combination of obverse and reverse dies constitutes a separate Fuld catalog number, even when struck in the same metal. Between 1862 and 1864, Northern merchants produced millions of private tokens to compensate for the disappearance of federal coinage. Most Civil War tokens were made to the size of the federal small cent, the coin they stood in for.

Cross References

Fuld 600E-11a

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