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Unknown ["Death to Traitors" anti-Confederate token showing Jefferson Davis hanging]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04986 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Object Date: 1861 Pagination: 1 metal token ; 2.3 cm. Order a Copy

The face shows a body hanging from a tree with the inscription "Jeff Davis." The obverse is inscribed "Death to Traitors" and "Becker."

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