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(1861) Copper-Nickel Civil War Store Card F-210AA-1d, Alfred S. Robinson Hartford CT

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Coin Details

Year
1861
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
Bronze
Weight
4.5g
Diameter
19mm

Description

Civil War-era store card from Alfred S. Robinson Hartford of Connecticut. Connecticut was an arms-making center, with Colt in Hartford and the New Haven Arms Company. The token trade was competitive, with die sinkers in New York, Cincinnati, and other cities vying for merchant orders across the region. 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.

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Fuld 210AA-1d

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