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HK-118 E Pluribus Unum Washington-Grant Dollar

The term is Sutler Tokens. During the Civil War with the millions of men and hundreds of units on the move the War Department (predecessor to the Pentagon) iinbedded Sutlers with the individual units. The Sutlers ran mobile Post Exchanges (PX's) to supply the troops with their daily needs in toiletries, combs, extra boots shoes soaps socks bevarages cigarettes etc just as modern Post Exchanges and Base Exchanges do now. They were horse drawn provision wagons that travelled with the units. Sutlers operated under government bid contract and the tokens with the Sutler designation, proprietors name, value amount and unit inscription were used to buy the goods and to give change. We used PX tokens in Germany during the sixties for the same reason. The Sutler tokens are a sub category of the Civil War tokens. They are all quite expensive the commonest ones bringing $150 to $200 the rarer ones all average about $600 and the R-7 & R-8 and R-9 averaging $1500-$4000 with no shortage of bidders/buyers. ALL very scarce and hard to find. Steve Hayden is one of the professionals concerning Sutlers and is usually the go to man for assigning to auction. mar n

This SCD appears to have been made by Francis X. Kohler for the US Centennial Exposition of 1876. Per the Kenney book on early American die sinkers, he was born in Germany in 1818 and worked in the US in Baltimore in the latter half of the 1800s. He is apparently known for "sulter checks" -- does anyone have any idea what those are???

This SCD appears to have been made by Francis X. Kohler for the US Centennial Exposition of 1876. Per the Kenney book on early American die sinkers, he was born in Germany in 1818 and worked in the US in Baltimore in the latter half of the 1800s. He is apparently known for "sulter checks" -- does anyone have any idea what those are???

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