1863 Civil War Token - Motto Question

and you have a very nice one here. and the orientation was 'almost' perfect.

I concur with Hondo. Having collected CW tokens for over sixty years now, I'm hardpressed to recall seeing one of these popular "bunny" dies that wasn't recut. I believe the die was recut so as to better center the merchant's name, Haas, above the bunny.

Keep in mind that quality control for many of these early die sinkers was not a priority. Their goal was principally to produce and peddle as many tokens as they could. The primitive design, variety of errors, off-metals and a great many other factors is what captured my virtually lifelong interest in this genre.

Respectfully, I disagree with this claim. Consider that over 25 million CW tokens are estimated to have been struck; this, and in a wide variety of metals, even vulcanite. Copper planchets were the most common ones used. Die sinkers tended to experiment, and this resulted in many off-metal varieties of cent-substitutes.

Overstrikes, on coins or tokens, were typically the consequence of providing collectors with made-to-order examples. This is supported by the fact that a great majority of overstrikes known, literally thousands of varieties that survive today, exist in small numbers (less than ten known). Also, the great majority of these suviving tokens tend to be high grade, uncirculated specimens, ones that never saw circulation and resided in collector cabinets.