Links
Here are some off-site links to Civil War Token related sites. Other suggestions are welcome.
General Information About Civil War Tokens
This article at Wikipedia is a good introduction if you are new to the hobby.
The Civil War Token Society is the official hub of the hobby. They publish a quarterly journal and high quality books. The books are expensive but membership is cheap ($20 per year, as of this writing) and you can easily save the cost of membership with the discount you get when you buy books.
Informal Information About Civil War Tokens
For asking questions and chatting about tokens in general the CWTS maintains a Multiply Discussion Group. Anyone can look at the postings but in order to post your own items you must be approved (in order to reduce spam).
There is a weekly Civil War token discussion group at coinzip.com hosted by Larry Moran. Details can be found here.
Alan Bleviss shares some photos of really rare store cards from his collection here.
The first ever attempt to catalog Civil War Tokens was made by Pliny Chase in 1863. You can view his article in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1862-1864.
Histories of Merchants Who Issued Civil War Tokens
Some articles by Frank Passic on issuers of Michigan Civil War Tokens: Gale Manufacturing of Hillsdale and Jonesville, Horace Ismon of Jackson, Albion Commercial College and Comstock brothers of Albion.
Tartan Collectables offers this merchant history of Dr. James Phelps of Mason, Michigan
Gerald Tebben gives the histories of all nine token issuing merchants from Columbus, Ohio and much more good information.
Gerald Tebben has also collected some articles about the merchants of Clarksburg, Ohio.
Donald Clifford has written an interesting article about the history of Kelly's Store, WV260A.
Other Token Websites
Richard Greever's Token Catalog has some CWT pictures, but not many. If you collect other tokens you should definitely check it out. As of this writing, there are pictures of almost 60,000 tokens on this site! These are mostly post Civil War era tokens from the United States but there are some foreign ones also. It's a great resource!
Civil War Token Dealers on the Web
It is hard to find any but the most common tokens at your local coin shop. If you are serious about collecting you need to scour the web. The alphabetically arranged list shown below is not intended as a recommendation of any of the sellers as I have not dealt with all the ones listed. It is also not a complete listing but the others that I am aware of don't have any specific offerings on their web sites.
I've got some duplicates & spares for sale here.
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