(No Date) Brass Civil War Store Card F-750O-2b, H. Mulligan PA

Coin Details

Auction Record

$480 MS63 09-21-2022 Stack's Bowers

Description

Merchant token from H. Mulligan of Pennsylvania, cataloged as Fuld 750O-2b. Pennsylvania was the Union's industrial heartland, with Philadelphia as a manufacturing center and Pittsburgh as an iron and steel producer. With 3 known varieties, H. Mulligan produced a modest number of token types. Struck in brass, this die combination (Fuld 750O-2b) is common to somewhat scarce. This undated piece entered commerce during the 1862-1864 period when millions of private tokens replaced vanished federal coinage. Professional die sinkers like John Stanton, Benjamin True, and William Bridgens supplied dies to merchants across the Northern states. Merchant-issued tokens circulated as substitutes for scarce federal coinage throughout the Northern states between 1862 and 1864. The brass composition gives this token a warm golden tone that contrasts with the reddish-brown of copper strikings.

Rarity Notes

Brass strikings are among the more available metal variants, though typically less common than copper. With 3 cataloged varieties, H. Mulligan was a limited producer of Civil War tokens.

Cross References

Fuld 750O-2b