Rulau Ct-Ha 19C, Robert Fulton Dollar
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Civil War store card from Connecticut, cataloged under Fuld Ct-Ha-19C. Connecticut was an arms-making center in the war, with Colt in Hartford and the New Haven Arms Company. This undated piece was struck during the Civil War coin shortage of 1862-1864, when the hoarding of gold, silver, and even copper cents left merchants without adequate change. The coin shortage of 1862-1864 affected virtually every retail transaction in the Northern states, as hoarding removed silver and copper coins from circulation faster than the U.S. Mint could replace them. Store cards like this one circulated as emergency currency after wartime hoarding removed federal coins from commercial channels, with private tokens becoming essential to daily trade by 1863.
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Rulau Ct Ha 19C
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Other Strike Types in This Series
(1861) Copper-Nickel Civil War Store Card F-210AA-1d, Alfred S. Robinson Hartford CT
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-35A-1b, E.W. Atwood, Bridgeport CT
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-35A-2b, E.W. Atwood, Bridgeport CT
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-35B-1b, A.W. Wallace's, Bridgeport CT
(1861-65) Brass Civil War Store Card F-560AA-1b, Gilbert B. Hotchkiss, Waterbury CT
(1861-65) Copper Civil War Store Card F-35B-1a, A.W. Wallace's, Bridgeport CT
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