Medal Marks Ill-Fated Civil War Train Heist
Editor’s Note: For nearly 60 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
was a bold, brazen and perhaps foolhardy Civil War train heist that led to the hanging of its leader and many of his cohorts. Today the Andrews Raid, an ill-fated attempt to capture a southern locomotive and use it to destroy bridges, cut communications and thus bring the South to its knees, is commemorated in monuments,
