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Civil War Merchant Token – Charles Plumb Huckster Cincinnati, Ohio
| Issuer | Charles Plumb |
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| Year | 1863-1864 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Cincinnati was one of the most active centers of Civil War token production in the country, and Huckster Row — the open-air market district where Charles Plumb operated — generated a disproportionate share of the city's merchant issues. Federal small-change coinage had vanished almost entirely from circulation by mid-1862, hoarded by a public spooked by wartime uncertainty, forcing tradesmen like Plumb to commission their own copper substitutes through local diesinkers.
The Fuld attribution places this among the Cincinnati mercantile series catalogued by George and Melvin Fuld, whose landmark work on Civil War tokens remains the definitive reference for attribution and die pairing.