Search of the Week: United South Token

This week a Newman Portal user searched for “United South Token.” 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.Link to Stack’s Americana sale, January 2008, on Newman Portal, featuring a United South token (realized $6,325): https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=3&AuctionId=516991&page=293Link to earlier discussion in the E-Sylum: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/periodical/514361