NEWMAN PORTAL SEARCH: UNITED SOUTH TOKEN

This week a Newman Portal user searched for “United South Token.” By coincidence, I had seen such a token on the bourse of the FUN show in Tampa the same day. This is a contemporary Confederate silver token, sometimes referred to as a Confederate half dime. The piece depicts a Confederate flag on the obverse, and southern agricultural products on the reverse. The token is mentioned in the New York Times in 1878, which in turn reported a discovery date of 1862. Only about a dozen are known, with one dug from a Tennessee battlefield.

Image: A UNITED SOUTH token, from Stack’s Americana sale, January 2008, lot 7233 (realized $6,325).

Link to Stack’s Americana sale, January 2008, on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=3&AuctionId=516991&page=293

Link to earlier discussion in The E-Sylum:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/periodical/514361

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