(1862) Copper Civil War Store Card F-510E-1a, H.B. Opfeld KY
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H.B. Opfeld of Kentucky issued this Civil War store card during the 1862-1864 coin shortage. Kentucky was a critical border state maintaining Union loyalty while deeply divided. Louisville served as a major supply depot and source of merchant tokens. The switch from large copper cents to small copper-nickel cents in 1857 preceded the wartime shortage by only four years. 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 510E-1a
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(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-480B-6b, John W. Lee, Lexington KY
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