The series known as “Hard Times” tokens comprises tokens issued privately in the United States from 1832 to 1844. The pieces are mostly made of copper and are the size of a United States cent of the period. There is several different categories of ‘Hard Times’ tokens featuring banks, political motifs, advertisements of private […]

I thought I would start this off by wishing everyone a safe and happy 4th of July, may the ooh’s and aah’s of the fireworks be plentiful. Lets talk a little bit about tokens and token collecting. There are many many tokens out there for just about anything and everything that you can think of […]

The Fifth and final issue of Fractional Currency was issued for just under 2 full years being issued from February 26, 1874 to February 15, 1876. They only issued the ten cent, twenty-five cent and the fifty cent notes for this issue, which makes this set an easy set to complete. There are only a […]

On February 25th, 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed legislation entitled “An Act to provide a National Currency, secured by a Pledge of United States Stocks, and to provide for the Circulation and Redemption thereof,” it later became known as the National Currency Act. The requirements form achieving national bank status changed during the note issuing period, […]