Script is printed on yellow cardstock. Front has wording that reads, “153^rd REG’T N.Y. VOLUNTEERS, GOOD FOR 25 CENTS IN SUTLERS STORES ONLY H.M. GALE, SUTLER.” Reverse has an image of a number 25. Measures 6/8” by 1 6/8’.

Since government issued coinage was scarce during the Civil War, sutlers often conducted transactions using a particular type of Civil War token known as a sutler token, as well as paper sutler script as in this example.  [sl]

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