(1861-65) Civil War Store Card F-885A-1CP, Trenton NJ
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Description
Merchant token from B.W. Titus of New Jersey, cataloged as Fuld 885A-1CP. New Jersey was a vital industrial and transportation state, with Newark, Trenton, and Paterson as major manufacturing centers where merchants issued Civil War tokens. This undated piece entered commerce during the 1862-1864 period when millions of private tokens replaced vanished federal coinage. The dies for merchant tokens were usually cut by professional die sinkers. Until Congress banned private tokens in 1864, tokens like this one circulated freely as cent substitutes in Northern commerce. Collectors were buying Civil War tokens from the makers during the war itself, including rare die pairings and off-metal strikes.
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Fuld 885A-1CP
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Other Strike Types in This Series
(1860-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-885A-1b, B.W. Titus, Trenton NJ
(1860-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-555A-5a, J.L. Agens & Co., Newark NJ
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-555A-8b, J.L. Agens & Co., Newark NJ
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-555C-10b, J. Wightman, Newark NJ
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-555C-11b, J. Wightman, Newark NJ
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-555C-12b, J. Wightman, Newark NJ
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