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The first series of Confederate paper money, issued in March 1861, bore interest and had a total circulation of $1,000,000. [1] As the war began to turn against the Confederates, confidence in the currency diminished, and the government inflated the currency by continuing to print unbacked banknotes.
Confederate gold refers to hidden caches of gold lost after the American Civil War. Millions of dollars worth of gold was lost or unaccounted for after the war, and its possible location has been a source of speculation for many historians and treasure hunters.
The financing of war expenditures by the means of currency issues (printing money) was by far the major avenue resorted to by the Confederate government. Between 1862 and 1865, more than 60% of total revenue was created in this way. [4] While the North doubled its money supply during the war, the money supply in the South increased twenty times ...
The money was mostly wasted on ships that were never delivered (because of the Union blockade) and in futile efforts to prop up the price of Confederate bonds to fool Europeans that the new nation was doing well. [33] The British had money to invest. They bought some Confederate bonds but spent far more on the blockade runners as in Confederate ...
Before the Civil War, the United States used gold and silver coins as its official currency. Paper currency in the form of banknotes was issued by privately owned banks, the notes being redeemable for specie at the bank's office. Such notes had value only if the bank could be counted on to redeem them; if a bank failed, its notes became worthless.
Just like coin collectors, paper bill collectors also know that these can be extremely valuable. And if you have old Confederate bills stashed away, their value could surprise you -- and it might ...
In March 1861, Louisiana ratified the Constitution of the Confederate States and the Confederate government retained all the mint officers. [24] They used it briefly as their own coinage facility. The Confederates struck 962,633 of the 2,532,633 New Orleans half-dollar coins dated 1861. [25]
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