1863 Civil War Cent?

Thanks iraqandroll ... thanks that is some good information ..

Now if it just did not have that hole

Well that's good, if you were happy about the hole we might have to start worrying about you.

I think many of the "Not one cent" tokens are found in the patriotic series, this is from the storecard series. The patriotics were anonymous pieces with patriotic or commonplace images on them that had no indication as to who had issued them. This meant that the issuer would not have to redeem them. The storecards typically have the issuers name and place of business on them. They were issued to facilitate making change, and as a form of advertising. There was always to possibility that someone would come in with a large number of their tokens and they would have to redeem them for actual money, but most never would come back allowing the person to also make a profit on the difference in cost between what he paid for the tokens, and the "face value". There are some ten thousand different varieties of store card tokens.

That is a interesting point ....I think I will print some of that link and put it with the coin.