Watch List notes:

UNITED STATES: brass token, 1860, Fuld-511/516b, AU details, 22mm, brass, NO SUBMISSION TO THE NORTH / 1860, Palmetto tree, with cotton bales, sugar hogsheads, and a cannon at its base, beyond which appears the rays of the rising sun, and forming a semicircle immediately outside of the rays, fifteen stars // THE WEALTH OF THE SOUTH / RICE TOBACCO SUGAR COTTON around bounty of the same, cleaned, R-5. In 1860 in Cincinnati, die sinker and token maker John Stanton tapped the engraving talents of Benjamin True to create a series of 22mm tokens. Struck in brass and usually with a hole for suspension on a ribbon, these were sold by agents in the South. Declaring what many Southerners felt, the tokens were a great success. Later, as the political division became worse, Stanton opened a Southern mail address to receive orders in Covington, Kentucky. N. O. Picayune of the Dallas Weekly Herald, Dallas, Texas, March 13, 1861, wrote "We were shown this morning a very pretty and well-executed medal made here, either in commemoration of the secession of the Southern States, or suggested as a model for the coin of the future Southern Confederacy - we could not learn which. The finish of this pretty medal is as good and well-executed as that of any gold piece issued by the mint."

Estimate: 300-500 USD