This Confederate States $100 currency/note, Type 3, serial letter A, No. Fakes are prolific today and even during the Civil War, the North issued fake Confederate currency to destabilize the market. If one sees a Confederate note where the ink is as black as the machine-printed parts of the note, it’s likely a fake. In most cases, iron gall ink was used to print CSA notes, which usually turned brown as it oxided and aged. Thin rice paper was often used instead of a cotton-linen blend like the U.S. Also owing to being cash-strapped, the Confederate government used lesser quality paper for printing its notes. “This means that legitimate Confederate currency should not have perfectly cut edges like you would see on modern currency,” according to the Manhattan Coin Club, which warns people on its website to avoid fakes by paying heed to cut, paper and ink. Without benefit of high-quality cutting machinery, Southern banks and officials would hand-sign and hand-cut the notes by hand so many notes have uneven margins. ![]() Photo courtesy of Brunk Auctions and LiveAuctioneersĬonfederate notes are often discernible by their cut. “Notes were issued for the next three years, ending in 1864,” according to .Ī group of Confederate currency brought $2,400 in November 2019 at Brunk Auctions. Union currency was dubbed “greenbacks.” The first currency banknote printed by the Confederate States of America, first issued into circulation April 1861, amounted to roughly a million dollars worth of money. Two months into its existence and just before the outbreak of the Civil War, the Confederate government started printing its own money to be used in the 11 states making up the Confederate States of America (CSA), often referred to as “graybacks” after the color of the Confederate soldiers’ uniforms. ![]() ![]() Confederate currency is far from worthless and can bring 50 or 100 times its face value today. While the show made for good entertainment, they got one key point wrong though. NEW YORK – Scooby Doo fans will remember the classic TV episode, A Night of Fright is No Delight, where the Scooby gang spends the night in a haunted mansion to collect an inheritance from an eccentric millionaire only to find out at the end that the money is Confederate currency and deemed worthless as a medium of exchange. Confederate States $50 Civil War currency/note, Type 4, serial letter B, No.
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