SOLD: Civil War Store Card Token 5 CENT ENCASED POSTAGE, Chicago 1862,

We buy and sell Civil War-era ephemera. Pictured is a Civil War store card / token with an encased five-cent stamp.  Coinage was scarce during the Civil War, so storekeepers minted their own tokens allowing them to make change. The other side is impressed with the following:

• John W. Norris News Books and Stationery

• 102 Madison St. 

• Chicago 

•  Pat. Aug 12, 1862 

• J.Gault  

Please call us if you have any Civil War items to sell.