Neat old relic:  a silver U.S. seated liberty quarter that was hammered flat into a poker chip.  This was dug on private property with landowner permission at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico.  Nothing remains of the fort today, and the site is located a few miles south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the Rio Grande valley.  Fort Fillmore was in use from 1851 to 1861 and was garrisoned by units of the Dragoons, Regiment of Mounted Rifles, Infantry, and Artillery.  It was the site of one of the first confrontations between Union and Confederate troops in the Civil War.  In July 1861, Lt. Col. John R. Baylor's Texas Cavalry attacked the Union garrison at the post under Major Isaac Lynde, and they fought a small battle in the cornfields between the fort and the nearby town of Mesilla.  The federal troops surrendered a few days later at San Augustine Springs, and Confederate troops briefly used Fort Fillmore as a post during their occupation of southern New Mexico from July 1861 to May 1862.  Lots of great history behind this relic!  

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