(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-115-G-1a, Boston; Tuttle's 5 cents MA
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Description
Boston; Tuttle's 5 cents of Massachusetts produced this token as a cent substitute during the wartime coin shortage. Massachusetts was a center of manufacturing and abolitionist sentiment, with Boston and surrounding cities contributing Civil War tokens as emergency currency. Each unique combination of obverse and reverse dies constitutes a separate Fuld catalog number, even when struck in the same metal. The token era ended in 1864, when Congress authorized a bronze cent and two-cent piece and outlawed private tokens. The federal response included postage and fractional currency notes, eventually in values as small as three cents. Collectors bought Civil War tokens even while they circulated, so numismatic strikes often survive in high grades.
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Fuld 115-G
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Other Strike Types in This Series
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-115EA-1b, Pulmonales, Boston MA
(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-115-G-2a, Boston; Tuttle's 10 cents MA
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-115G-1a, C.F. Tuttle's, Boston MA
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-115G-3a, C.F. Tuttle's, Boston MA
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-320A-1a, A & C.F. Wright, Harvard MA
(1861-65) White Metal Civil War Store Card F-115A-1e, Comer's, Boston MA
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