Encased Postage - a postage stamp encased in a coin-like container that was treated as if it were a coin with a face value equivalent to that printed on the stamp. Encased postage was used in the Civil War period.
Encased: A stamp inserted into a small coin-size case with a transparent front or back. Such stamps were circulated as legal coins during periods when coins were scarce.
Encased Postage Stamp - A stamp inserted into a small, transparent, coin-size case originally used as legal coins during coin shortages.
Enraving - See "Intaglio." ...
ENCASED POSTAGE
Coins were in very short supply in the Union states during the Civil War, partly because of the war effort, but also because of a general lack of faith in the paper money in circulation at the the time, ...
Encased postage stamp - a postage stamp, first used during the American Civil War, encased within a protective covering that was used as a coin during periods of metal shortages ...
Encased Postage Stamps. Stamps set into small metal disks with mica facing and used as currency.
Engine Turning. A pattern of fine curved lines in a stamp design produced by a machine known as a Rose Engine.
Feuchtwanger Strip: Civil War era encased postage stamps, but may be a fantasy item created in the 1890's.
Companies also could advertise on the back of encased postage. These stamps inside brass frames with clear mica covers were not used for postage but rather served as coins. Encased postage was invented by J.
 See also: Stamp, Used, Sheet, Cover, Philatelic
  
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