Are Many CCF Members Collecting Civil War Tokens?

Here are mine. http://www.coincommunity.org/galler...p?album=1367



Have you seen this thread

Show us your Civil War and Store Card tokens!

its 26 pages long so far

Those are just the pictures I have loaded, so far. I have 54 CWT (52 Patriotic, 2 Store Cards). I have on my "To Do List" to take new pictures of those plus the additions.

Note that the shield-type tokens generally have the fine vertical (in the bars) & horizontal (in the field) hatching to denote the colours red & blue, according to heraldic convention. I am ever so mad at the US Mint for not including those on the current shield cents.

GR58 - that 1864 Lincoln "Lincoln and Union" is also considered a presidential campaign token, and has a DeWitt/Sullivan number of AL 1864-45.

GR58,
Not all CWT, but a few merchant or advertising tokens or store cards.
The one with the coffin is very interesting. It dates
from the Civil War days when many bodies needed to be shipped to the families.

I have only one.

There were less of them produced than US coins. But, I guess their survival rate might be a little higher than US coins of that time.

I have about 25 or 30 of them, mostly Yankee Robinson tokens.

Q David Bowers had a personal interest in the Yankee Robinson tokens, collected them and wrote about them.

So it seemed probable that he would include some extra coverage of them in the new book. I bought a copy and he did indeed dedicate a few pages to those tokens.

The book is nice, and all in color, and 440 pages. One odd thing about it, though, is what might be described is physically the way the paperback seems to be "compressed". It's got a case of the bends, as though it wants to curl up, and it will be stored on my bookshelf flat, stacked with other books instead of on edge, because it keeps trying to change shape. But it seems like most paperbacks do better stacked anyway, so no big deal.

-Duncan