Show Us Your Civil War And Store Card Tokens!

Here's one of my favorite Patriotic CWT's, a 511/516 brass, acquired at the FUN Show this year. This "Wealth of the South" token is one of a few pieces, dated 1860, that's been included in the CWT series. Produced in the North, it's thought to have been issued to promote southern candidates in the 1860 election.

My pics don't do this piece justice. About half of the zinc or silver "wash" remains. Whereas the fields are brassy, the devices are stunningly highlighted by the "wash" that remains intact. Interestingly and ironically, obverse die breaks at 6 and 12 o'clock seemingly threaten to divide the token in half!

Pleasant surprise in a lot of junk box priced world coins. It's been through the wars -- but then, that is appropriate.

Looks like a hand is reaching out to grab the head of liberty.

Wow, this topic sure has hit a dry spell... It was one of the hottest topics for a LONG time, but not much activity for a while now

Here is my latest acquisition, a Wood Co Bridge Co token struck over a WI510L-1a1 Wm Frankfurth CWT. It is the reeded edge planchet, so the Frankfurth token was an R5 before being re-purposed

Cool overstrike there, Dave H. While I've owned a few of these Wood tokens over the years, they were clearly struck atop common patriotics. Yours has a greater wow factor, being that it's atop a scarce storecard.

Here's a relatively common NY CWT, along with a pic of the steamship it represented ...

DSfreeworld ... This is a great starter piece for a collection. Although a relatively common variety, this one is growing in popularity among collectors. Some regard SPOOT as an error, but I think it was intentional. IMHO. this diesinker's work is otherwise too good to suggest he'd make such a gross error. Among the so-called primitives, there are many spelling errors.