Confederate Currency Collection 1861-1864

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Confederate Currency Collection 1861-1864

The collection consists of 50 currency notes issued by the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

0.25 cubic feet; 1 folder and 1 oversize framed item

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6370455

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Confederate States of America

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During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to th...

Bill, Byrd

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