Adam Heintz and William Henkle opened their dry goods store at the northwest corner of Friend (now Main) and Fourth streets in late 1862 or early 1863.

The site is now the long vacant Hartman Building, which was erected in the early 1900s by a patent medicine mogul.

Heintz and Henkle was not listed in the 1862 city directory and rarely advertised.

In April, The Columbus Gazette praised the pair as reliable and accommodating people "who know how to keep a grocery store."

The store's advertisements noted it carried, "Fishinger's White Wheat Flour, an article well known in this community."

Heintz & Henkle tokens are fairly common. An estimated 527 to 2,087 survive.

W.K. Lanphear of Cincinnati used three obverse dies - an eagle, Mercury and a turban head - to strike the tokens in copper and copper-nickel.