Collection Highlights
Brown Brothers, Irving Place, showing east side from Eighteenth Street to Gramercy Park South
Date:
March, 1909
Object Number:
PR.020.19.2
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Civil war token
Object Number:
INV.13855.51b
Date:
1863
Medium:
Copper
Dimensions:
Overall: 3/4 in. ( 1.9 cm )
Marks:
Obverse: "CDH / 1863"
Reverse: "OUR NAVY"
Description:
Token, die struck, with depiction of USS Monitor under a swath of 13 stars, below “CDH / 1863" ; reverse reads "OUR NAVY" surrounded by a laurel wreath.
Gallery Label:
Tokens called "Civil War tokens" were struck in some northern cities between 1863 and 1865 to supply small change for public transactions. To circumvent anti-counterfeiting laws, they were either not denominated or bore an evasive valuation.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
