Greetings. I was considering two new options to the Numista coin catalogue. What if we add California as a subsection to the United States and put the California territorial and fractional gold there? As technically these were coins and I would not classify them as exonumia. Also I was wondering if we should make another United States subsection called: Unofficial Coinage or Private Coinage or Business Coinage, as then the Civil War Tokens, Hard Times Tokens, and early American private coinage could go there? Please reply your thoughts. Thank you for your time and attention.
California's gold coins should be in a section under ‘Coins’, as should both the Hard Times Tokens & the Civil War Tokens - as they circulated as money during times of coin shortages during the 19th. Century.
Also for the Civil War Tokens we could make a subsection under the USA called: Civil War. Also we could do this for the Hard Times Tokens, and just list that subsection of USA by saying: Hard Times. Also as I mentioned somewhat before we would list California as a subsection under USA for it’s gold coinage and fractional gold coinage. Finally I still believe these all should be under coins and not exonumia because they were widely circulated and used just as the official coins were. An example of Numista already putting some tokens in the coin catalogue are the Canadian ones from early Canada and provinces. Does anyone agree with me? Or disagree? Please respond so I know how I can make my request even better. Thank you.
