My first venture into collecting CONFEDERATE money.

[the ringo kid]

Picked this up at Sunday's gun show for what I thought was a great price.

An 1864 Confederate 10 Dollar bill. Here is what it looks like:

I don't have an image of the back side but-it's in blue color. Also, I'm NOT sure if it's a Richmond note or not? I forgot to note that down in my tiny mind.

PS, mine has different signatures on it I think and is a much lower number.

 

[vytoland]

years ago, i was into coin & currency collection....i had a $10 bill just like yours.....

 

[the ringo kid]

years ago, i was into coin & currency collection....i had a $10 bill just like yours.....

I paid $35, and he threw in a 1953 $2 bill printed in red ink. That $2 bill I'm giving to a friend of mine as she has been giving me any bicentennial quarters she finds.

I'm not "really" into currency collecting but--that Confederate 10 dollar bill I thought was a great asking price and there were two dealers at the show (the 3rd didn't show) and the other dealer was asking $100 for his Confederate 10 bill-which was in worse condition than mine was in. Mine is graded in about 45%-the other is about 25%. The 1953 $2 bill is about 70% and is worth about $5 or so depending on what dealer you ask.

 

[29aholic]

Here is a link. Yours is in the seventh series and is a type 68 probably printed in Columbia SC.

Confederate States dollar - Wikipedia


We used to buy them around here in original wax paper bundles for next to nothing years ago.

 

[the ringo kid]

I think you are absolutely correct-and it seems as If it was South Carolina indeed. If this works-here are both sides.

And many thanks, being a new-born newby into Confederate collecting--I'd have struggled to know even this much.

 

[Shark Bait]

A confederate officer paid this to my great great grandfather for a pair of boots he made in Elizabethtown, Ky.

 

[the ringo kid]

Just read a bit on that one. Nice scene of slaves "happily" working.

 

[Jack Flash]

When I was a little kid, there were lots of ads in magazines about sending in a couple of dollars for a boat load of Confederate paper currency. When I got mine, the bills looked pretty much new. Later in life, I began to wonder what if any laws would prevent someone from counterfeiting Confederate currency then selling it.

 

[VaTom]

Picked this up at Sunday's gun show for what I thought was a great price.

An 1864 Confederate 10 Dollar bill. Here is what it looks like:

I don't have an image of the back side but-it's in blue color. Also, I'm NOT sure if it's a Richmond note or not? I forgot to note that down in my tiny mind.

PS, mine has different signatures on it I think and is a much lower number.

I have seen Confederate Bonds and Bills at auctions over the last couple of years. Seems like the ones printed in Richmond bring a higher value.

Nice.

 

[billwill]

I have a whole pack of confederate play money from the 50's and they must be good copies cause it looks bout the same. Neat find on the real stuff!

 

[Ozark Marine]

In the late 50's Chicago Public School System had mobile classroom type buses stop at schools with different themes a few time's a year.
We'd walk in the front of it, look at the displays and out the rear door.
Once it was the civil war with Union and Confederate uniforms, weapons and even blood stained battle worn cloths.
Us boys were amazed. Girls were EWWW.
On the way out of the bus we were handed real Confederate paper money.
I was amazed by it all. I loved history.
Don't ask me where the bills are now.
But I have a great memory of that day.
Thanks Ringo for this thread.

 

[oneounceload]

Worth more than the current fiat gov't issued money..........

 

[S&W ucla]

As with most things, Buyer Beware! There were a lot of reproduction/counterfeit Confederate bills printed around the Centennial 1961-65

 

[Jack Flash]

I know that counterfeiting US currency is easier these days with the high tech color copiers out there. Seems like every couple of weeks there is another "a slew of fake $20s are turning up in our area" story on the local news.

So it seems like it would be child's play to copy something printed 150+ years ago. Not that I would or could call any of the bills shown in this thread fake. It just seems like fakes would be easy to make, hard to detect, and what would the penalty be if the faker is caught? Probably no worse than if someone faked a label for a S&W box.

As the man said, "Buyer Beware!"

 

[BigBoy99]

I remember as a kid, some company was offering "Confederate Money" in their boxes of cereal. I doubt it was genuine Civil War vintage but more like good reproduction. This was probably 60 - 70 years ago. I'm sure some of that would still be floating around.

 

[jack the toad]

Years ago I had some confederate money along with some Hawaiian money (before statehood) as well as some European (mostly France & German carry back from the war) but a so-called friend relieved me of it.

 

[Tom S.]

BigBoy, Jack Flash and S&W ucla all touched on a very important fact: there is a lot of counterfeit Confederate currency floating around out there. One reason is of course the renewed interest in collecting it, but the other reason is since it was never official US currency, the laws against counterfeiting it do not apply. Of course there are laws against misrepresenting something you are selling, but some of these counterfeits are so good that unless you are an expert, you'd never know. Because of this, I won't buy any Confederate currency that hasn't been authenticated.

 

[Qball]

How cool is that?

I visited this site and printed out some bills for fun,
making Cowboy Action Shooting props. (only the one sided bills)

Confederate States of America Currency - Collection and Sales

 

[rwsmith]

That will be a hedge....

...when federal currencies fail and the South 'rises again'.


Whoe! Serious question: What do those seals at the top say? Is it 'Confederate States and U.S. States of America"????

 

[Alpo]

One side says "Two years after ratification of a treaty of peace between"

Other side says "The Confederate States of America and the United States of America"

You're supposed to read it as one sentence.