(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-765J-1fp, Pittsburgh PA
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Description
Civil War-era store card from A. Ludewig of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was the Union's industrial heartland, with Philadelphia as a manufacturing center and Pittsburgh as an iron and steel producer. This undated token was struck circa 1862-1864 during the wartime coin shortage. Token production was a specialized trade — die sinkers maintained catalogs of stock dies that merchants could pair with custom obverses. Merchant-issued tokens circulated as substitutes for scarce federal coinage throughout the Northern states between 1862 and 1864. Civil War store cards are collected both as numismatic items and as historical documents of wartime American commerce.
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Fuld 765J-1fp
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Other Strike Types in This Series
(1861) Brass Civil War Store Card F-525A-1b, S.H. Zahm, Lancaster PA
(1861) Copper Civil War Store Card F-525A-1a, S.H. Zahm, Lancaster PA
(1861) Copper Civil War Store Card F-750H-1a, Chestnut & Walnut, Philadelphia PA
(1861) Copper-Nickel Civil War Store Card F-360A-1do, W. Bell's, Erie PA
(1861) German Silver Civil War Store Card F-750U-1j, A.B. Taylor, Philadelphia PA
(1861) Silver Civil War Store Card F-525A-1f, S.H. Zahm, Lancaster PA
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