Washington Patriotic Civil War Tokens
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Fuld 105-358 Not One Cent Emil Sigel New York City
Obverse: [no legend].
Reverse: NOT / ONE / CENT
Copper Weight: 52.1 g (3.37 grams) Diameter: 19.5 mm Reverse die alignment: 360°
Comments: The obverse of this token displays a small undraped bust right of Washington framed within a beaded oval that is in the center of a five pointed star. The points of the star appear to be attached to a circular wreath. The name and address of the diecutter is added below the star. Click here to view a detail. Emil Sigel was located at 177 William Street in New York City during the Civil War period. This obverse is Fuld Patriotic die 105 and is also listed by Fuld as Civil War storecard reverse die 1132. It appeared on the George Hyenlein (Baker 543) and H.M. Lane (Baker 554) storecards listed in the New York storecard section. The combination with reverse 358 is one of ten uses of this Washington die in the partiotic token series listed in Rulau's first edition of the Standard Catalog (see p. 378).
The reverse is one of several varieties with the legent NOT / ONE/ CENT. It can be distinguished as patriotic die 358 as follows: Open wreath with 10 berries on each side. Serifs on the word ONE. The second inside berry from the bottom on each side is below the letter C and T in CENT. Fuld 105 was combined with three other varieties of this legend (Civil War dies 1251-1253, also know as Patriotic dies 355, 359 and 360).
Provenance: Part of an anonymous donation consisting of 1100 tokens and medals covering the Nineteenth century, primarily up through the Civil War era.
Reference: Rulau, Standard Catalog of United States Tokens, 1st ed., p. 378; 2nd edition, p. 423 for the obverse and pp. 418, 425 and 434 for the reverse. The obverse die is pictured in Fuld, U.S. Civil War Storecards, 2nd ed. on p. xxxi as die 1132.
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Fuld 111-340 1863
Obverse: 1863 [in exergue]
Reverse: [no legend]
Copper Weight: 46.2 g (2.99 grams) Diameter: 18.9 mm Reverse die alignment: 90°
Comments: The obverse displays an undraped bust right portrait of Washington with six stars to the left and seven stars to the right. According to Rulau's first edition of the Standard Catalog (see p. 377), this obverse was also combined with patriotic die 271 (also known as storecard die 1246) which contains the legend UNION / FOR / EVER within a wreath.
The reverse displays an American shield with crossed flags behind. In the center is a liberty pole with a liberty cap on top surrounded by thirteen stars. Note the top star, the seventh from the left side of the pole, is misshapen with six points while the others have five points. Also die cracks can be detected as small lines at stars two, three, eight, nine and thirteen, with some doubling at the first star. The entire display is surrounded by an oak leaf wreath. The center of the reverse die has somewhat buckled, evident on this example by a weak central strike (especially evident in the shield at the stars on the left side of the horizontal field.
Provenance: Part of an anonymous donation consisting of 1100 tokens and medals covering the Nineteenth century, primarily up through the Civil War era.
References:Reference: Rulau, Standard Catalog of United States Tokens, 1st ed., p. 377; 2nd edition, pp. 412 and 423 for the obverse and pp. 417 and 425 for the reverse.
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Fuld 112-442 1863
Obverse: 1863 [in exergue]
Reverse: NEW / YORK / *
Copper Weight: 55.5 g (3.59 grams) Diameter: 19.7 mm Reverse die alignment: 180°
Comments: The obverse displays an undraped bust right portrait of Washington with six stars to the left and six stars to the right. According to Rulau's first edition of the Standard Catalog (see p. 377), this obverse was combined with patriotic die 396 (also known as storecard die 1271) which contains the legend WILSON'S MEDAL in a circle with 1 in the center, all within a wreath. The present combination with reverse 442 is not mentioned.
The reverse displays the legend NEW YORK with a five pointed star below, all within an olive wreath. The present example was struck slightly off center so that some metal protrudes from 12:00 to 3:00 o'clock on the obverse.
Provenance: Part of an anonymous donation consisting of 1100 tokens and medals covering the Nineteenth century, primarily up through the Civil War era.
References:Reference: Rulau, Standard Catalog of United States Tokens, 1st ed., p. 377; 2nd edition, pp. 412 and 423 for the obverse and pp. 420 and 426 for the reverse.
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