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This is my 3rd example of this token, but when they come up for sale nice and at a good price, I can't resist. This is a Civil War Token -- emergency small denomination money that circulated in the north Union states of the USA mostly between 1863-1865 during the US Civil War. Most federally issued small denomination money was hoarded during this time, and so many private issuers and businesses took the crisis into their own hands by issuing these tokens. This is an example of what's called a "patriotic token" -- not issued by any single business, but by a private entity for general use. There are more than 1,900 varieties of just the patriotic type, not including those issued by specific businesses (store cards) or military groups (sutler tokens). This is a whole realm of exonumia in and of itself. Cheers, Brandon

Very common, a nice bit of copper.