Civil War Store Cards - Non-Contemporary
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About This Coin
The Civil War Store Cards - Non-Contemporary is a United States coin from the Civil War Store Cards series. The obverse features merchant advertisements, patriotic slogans, or political messages, while the reverse displays business names, addresses, or patriotic designs. Designed by Various private die sinkers including John Stanton, William Bridgens, and others. Civil War Store Cards are merchant-issued tokens that circulated as emergency currency during the coin shortage of 1862-1864. When citizens hoarded gold, silver, and even copper coins, merchants commissioned private tokens to facilitate daily commerce. Organized by state in the Fuld cataloging system, they document thousands of businesses across the wartime North. A vast collecting field with over 10,000 varieties. Tokens document the merchant landscape of Civil War-era America and the ingenuity of private enterprise in solving the currency crisis.
Specifications
Strike Types & Varieties(76)

(1860) Brass Civil War Store Card F-NC-23b, A.B. Taylor PA

(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-U, 1b F.H. Rollins OH

(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-2a, Albert Ross

(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-C, 1a Central National Home

(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-NC-24a1, Taylor

(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-NC-TN-A

(1861-65) German-Silver Civil War Store Card F-NC-I-1j, S. Goetz OH

(1863) Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-F, Urbana/Fisler&Chance/1069

(1863) Copper-Nickel Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-F, Fisler & Chancer OH
(1867) Brass Civil War Store Card F-NC-12b, Rulau MV-600A Eureka

(1867) Brass Civil War Store Card F-NC-LU-Cb, Rulau MV-603 Eureka

(1873) Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-G, 1a, One French

(1873) Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-Ma, James & French

(1873) Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-Pa, Mauck & Bradbury Mauck & Bradbury OH

(c.1870) Copper Civil War Store Card F-NC-C-1a, P. Stumps IL
(c.1872) Copper Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-T, H. Ransick OH

(c.1874) Civil War Store Card F-NC-PA-Da, J. Henry Gercke
(c.1875) Brass Civil War Store Card F-NC-OH-R, Jas. Murdock, Jr. OH

(No Date) Brass Civil War Store Card F-NC-D-1b, J. Henry Gercke PA
