(1861) Civil War Store Card F-300-G-1b, Janesville; Smith/1111 WI
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Description
Civil War store card issued by Janesville; Smith/1111 of Wisconsin. Wisconsin was a growing frontier state with Milwaukee as its largest commercial center, and its merchants issued tokens as practical solutions to the coin shortage. Civil War tokens addressed a practical problem: the wartime disappearance of federal small change made daily transactions nearly impossible without private substitutes. Civil War tokens circulated alongside postage currency, fractional currency notes, and encased postage stamps as substitutes for the federal coins that had disappeared from commercial channels.
Cross References
Fuld 300-G
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Other Strike Types in This Series
(1860) Brass Civil War Store Card F-920M-1b, T. Racek, Watertown WI
(1860-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-510A-1a1, E. Aschermann & Co., Milwaukee WI
(1861) Brass Civil War Store Card F-300G-1b, H.L. Smith, Janesville WI
(1861) Civil War Store Card F-310-B-1a, Jefferson; Jung/1226 WI
(1861) Copper Civil War Store Card F-300C-2a, Chapmans, Janesville WI
(1861) Copper Civil War Store Card F-300C-4a, Lappins WI
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