(No Date) Civil War Store Card F-115B-4B, MA
Strike TypeCoin Details
Description
Dunn & Co's of Massachusetts issued this token as emergency currency during the Civil War. Massachusetts was a center of manufacturing and abolitionist sentiment, with Boston and surrounding cities contributing Civil War tokens as emergency currency. This undated piece entered commerce during the 1862-1864 period when millions of private tokens replaced vanished federal coinage. Each unique combination of obverse and reverse dies constitutes a separate Fuld catalog number, even when struck in the same metal. The hoarding of federal coinage created an acute shortage of small change, prompting thousands of merchants to issue tokens as practical substitutes. The brass composition gives this token a warm golden tone that contrasts with the reddish-brown of copper strikings.
Cross References
Fuld 115B-4B
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Other Strike Types in This Series
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-115EA-1b, Pulmonales, Boston MA
(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-115-G-1a, Boston; Tuttle's 5 cents MA
(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-115-G-2a, Boston; Tuttle's 10 cents MA
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-115G-1a, C.F. Tuttle's, Boston MA
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-115G-3a, C.F. Tuttle's, Boston MA
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-320A-1a, A & C.F. Wright, Harvard MA
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