I recently finished reading a fascinating book titled 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End by Scott W. Berg about a significant (but little-known) event in U.S. history: the mass execution of 38 Dakota Indians by hanging on December 26, 1862, at Mankato, Minnesota.

Having been a student of American history most of my life, I was surprised (and a little embarrassed) that I had never before come across accounts of this event. The book itself was a great read (and I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the events of the Dakota War), but I was curious to find out if readers of The E-Sylum were aware of numismatic representations of this event? A Google search did turn up this 1899 Mankato street fair merchant token/medal with a depiction.

To read the complete Token Catalog record, see:
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=98523&inventory_id=
49439&attribution_id=99292&td_create_uid=252