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RARE Mormon 1846 Token - "Do Your Duty" & "Union is Strength" 105816

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RARE Mormon 1846 Token -  Do Your Duty  &  Union is Strength   105816
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Early Mormon token encouraging unity and strength. Pictorial 'Bee Hive' on one side and 'Two Hands Shaking" on the other. Good condition. "It has been discovered that in 1846 a Mormon named Peter Haws crossed the plains with the exiled Mormons and was the leader of a wagon company. Haws was also a private coiner and had been indicted in Nauvoo for counterfeiting U.S. coins. (It was noted that his counterfeits were of excellent quality.) While camped at Garden Grove, Iowa Territory, it was reported that Haws had his coining press in his wagon. To help pass the time, he was up to his old tricks and was again minting base-metal coins. On 12 May 1846 Brigham Young even came over to Haws' wagon and reproved him for this... Nevertheless, the Mormon leader left Haws in charge of his wagon company, and Haws came to the Great Salt Lake Valley." (Mormon and Utah Coin and Currency, pages 34-35) City: State: Utah Date: 1846