(1865) Copper Civil War Store Card F-600A-1a, Miners Brewery & Bakery ID

Coin Details

Description

Civil War merchant token bearing the name of Miners Brewery & Bakery in Idaho. Idaho Territory was remote and sparsely populated during the Civil War. Store cards attributed to Idaho are exceptionally rare. Professional die sinkers like John Stanton, Benjamin True, and William Bridgens supplied dies to merchants across the Northern states. Federal coins vanished from circulation in 1862 as people hoarded silver and then cents, leaving merchants to fill the gap with tokens. Die sinkers in major cities competed fiercely for merchant orders, offering stock reverses that could be paired with custom obverse dies featuring the merchant's name and business information. Most Civil War tokens were made to the size of the federal small cent, the coin they stood in for.

Cross References

Fuld 600A-1a