拍品描述： 1867 EUREKA $10.00 Token. 19.2 mm. Reeded Edge. Mint State.Red brown with a sprinkling of electric blue toning on the obverse, a bit more on the reverse. A couple diagonal planchet striations are noted on the obverse.Mystifying numismatists for well over a century, the story of the Eureka tokens is still far from completely known. Probably most intriguing is their tie-in to Civil War Patriotic and Merchant Store Tokens. The various denominations share reverses with a number of CWTs, all of which, with no exception, are rarities, and their reverses are among the most difficult dies to find of all the Civil War Tokens. All but the most fortunate collectors have to accept a post-war 1867 dated Eureka token to represent a token from any of these dies. While of similar rarity as the prized CWTs there is much less competition for the later dated pieces, and their values remain relatively low. This lot offers the remarkable 10 Dollars token: The (Eureka) obverse is listed by Fuld as NC-12b and is rated R-8. The reverse is Fuld (and Bowers) reverse 1405A which is known on a single Civil War token, the Unique R-10 token of McKay and Lapsley, African-American barbers of Nashville, Tennessee (TN-690D-11a). As a maverick token it is listed by Rulau as MV-615 on page 877 of his Standard Catalog of United States Tokens. Outside the Civil War token field, this series of tokens has an interesting history as well. While the 5 and 10 Cents Eureka tokens are listed by Kappen in his California token catalog as being from San Francisco (SF-784 and 785), most collectors no longer accept that attribution. Rulau in his encyclopedic United States Tokens 1700-1900 spends considerable space delving into the Eureka tokens, which he lists in his Trade Tokens - Unknown Location section as MV-600 to MV-615. This is interesting research and is recommended reading to anyone interested in this token.