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SMC 242
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Ten-Cent Henry Rice Sutler Coin
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SMC 2241
Ten-Cent Sutler coin of Henry Rice, a close friend of President Lincoln's. A sutler is a civilian merchant who sells goods and provisions to soldiers, usually out of the back of a wagon, with which he would follow the moving army.
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SMC 2242
This Civil War Sutler token, at 50 cents, is the largest denomination of sutler currency issued during the war. This token was issued by Henry Rice, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, who would come to endorse Abraham Lincoln as a young lawyer, remain friends with Lincoln throughout his career, and even to offer to make his inaugural suit.
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Alexander Hart's Civil War Sword and Scabbard, Presented Upon His Promotion to Captain
February 22, 1862
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SMC 255
Sword and Scabbard of Alexander Hart, a religious Jewish haberdasher who led the 5th Louisiana Infantry.
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Excessively Rare "Rice and Byers" One Dollar Sutler Token from Fort Sill in the Indian Territory
1870
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SMC 864
Possibly the only surviving sutler token from the trading post at Fort Sill.
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A Rare Artifact Associated With 1862 Battlefield Passover Seder: A G.W. Forbes Civil War Sutler's Token
1863
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SMC 1529
Token of the Jewish sutler G.W. Forbes, who brought matzahs for his coreligionists of the Ohio 23rd regiment to celebrate the seder in 1862.
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SMC 2234
Lazarus Goldheim 25-cent token: Goldheim, hailing from Baltimore, was the sutler for the 1st Virginia Cavalry, one of the Confederacy's most celebrated fighting units.
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