I saw one for sale, quite expensive, online. It was from a PA unit and dug in Virginia. I'm not going to buy it but I had not thought of anything being a token - only coins or specie.
I saw one for sale, quite expensive, online. It was from a PA unit and dug in Virginia. I'm not going to buy it but I had not thought of anything being a token - only coins or specie.
Is it a sutlers token? If so if it was made for a particular unit they can be quite rare. They were used as change so that when a soldier bought something from a sutler thay would get them back in change which was pretty smart on the sutlers part. Some sutlers had tokens made with the regiments numbers.
Yes but then I have read where some sutlers stayed with a unit throughout an entire campaign which are the one where the sutler would have tokens made with the sutlers name as well as the unit they were following around. Most sutlers tokens just have the sutlers name and amount the token war worth.
Small copper token, approx. 0.75 in. Recto with "One 100 Dollar"; verso with "V. Beaudry, 1st Reg, U.S. Cavalry." Small copper token, approx. 0.75 in. "John I. Metcalf / 3rd Reg. O. Cav. U.S.A. / 25 cents in Goods." Small hole punched in edge. Verso blank...