1. Better Save Your Confederate Money.
- Author
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Wilkinson, Winifred
- Subjects
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MONEY , *PAPER money , *PRINTING presses , *PRICE inflation , *COUNTERFEIT money - Abstract
The article forecasts the increase in the value of the Confederate currency according to J. H. Elliott, an antique dealer from Atlanta, Georgia. The Confederate bills which were used as children's play money and as wallpaper are now getting scarce. The earlier bills dated 1861 and 1862 are more valuable than those issued later when the printing presses of the Southern states ran the fastest in response to inflation. The least valuable of all are the counterfeit issued by the U.S. government.
- Published
- 1952