1859 New Orleans Dimes

Here is one of the best in grade, of perhaps a roll of new 1859-o dimes, dug in a CSA camp outside Manassas, in Prince William County, VA back about thirty years ago, as the site was being "improved" with townhouses. I figure a sutler's wagon must have set up shop and paid out these little jewels in change, one day in early 1861. If you collect Civil War coins try to get ones actually used in the War, and not just commemoratives that echo the distant past, but which were never there. This dime has real history.