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Sutler's Token

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WXDirt

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How common are these things to dig? I pulled this one out of the ground 20+ years ago in WI...back when I was in middle school and had hair. No matter, I'd rather have the token anyway...

At the time, I sent a Polaroid to the editor at Treasure Found, and they sent me a letter back stating it might be one of only 5 known to exist of this particular run. He also took a WAG and suggested in might fetch around $500 at the time. Anybody out there have any experience with sutler's tokens? Is there a market for them?

Just curious...thanks!
 
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rare to dig, of the three types of Civil War tokens, (store cards, patriotic tokens, and sutler tokens) sutler tokens are by far the rarest.

Sutler tokens rather than listing the name of a private business, bore the name of a particular army unit (usually a regiment) and the name of the sutler who conducted transactions with that regiment. If I had to guess here and this is only a guess your token says, H. Davis, 45th Regiment, IL Volunteers and the name Childs Manufacturer, Chicago was either the Die sinker of the token or merchants name but I'm not sure.

Do a Google search on Sutler Tokens and there's a few books out there also by David E. Schenkman and George and Melvin Fuld.

I love old tokens as much as any coin, I have a few old ones myself from the Civil War era :clapping:

Nice find and I would hang onto it and find out just how much it is worth before letting it go if you decide to :thumbup:
 
Sent some pics off to Steve Hayden, who apparently runs auctions on these things...see link in previous post...here's what he responded:

"It is listed as Schenkman IL J 10B and given a rarity rating of R8 in 1983 indicating 5 to 10 known at that time. It probably has a retail value of $400 or so. Let me know if you are ever interested in selling. -Steve"

The plot thickens! :ninja:
 
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