(1863) Civil War Store Card F-115D-3EP, Boston MA
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Description
Merchant token from Merriam & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, cataloged as Fuld 115D-3EP. Massachusetts was a center of manufacturing and abolitionist sentiment, with Boston and surrounding cities contributing Civil War tokens as emergency currency. Civil War tokens rarely bear dates. This piece was struck during the 1862-1864 coin shortage, when merchants needed emergency small change. 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. Estimates of Civil War token output run from 25 million (Fuld) to about 50 million (CWTS), struck before Congress banned private tokens in 1864.
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Fuld 115D-3EP
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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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