A Creative Ebay Listing

British India was affected by the civil war?!,in the USA?!. I knew it but my history teachers always says I'm wrong about it!:-P


I knew it...

But seriously I love all these listing that add in random events that don't affect the coin or its country, the 'civil war era' seems to be one of those often used add ons.

Of far more pressing concern to the folks actually in India at the time was, of course, dealing with the aftermath of the "civil war" so recently concluded there: the Indian Rebellion of 1857 which saw the termination of East India Company's monopoly on power in India and the conversion of the country to direct British rule. One of the consequences of which was the issuing of coins such as this one, which no longer bore the name and logo of the Company.

I'm prepared to be tolerant of some coin dealers and coin sellers using generic "time periods" to promote their coins - pretty much any European coin from anywhere within the period 1100-1400 can be advertised as "crusader era", and I've seen just about any ancient Greek or Roman coin from the period 1-100 AD called "biblical era", but calling an Indian coin "civil war" seems just silly keyword spamming to me.