Although you may have heard of the famously devalued Confederate paper currency, the American Civil War also saw the Confederacy minting a few coins (we're talking very, very few). The Confederate ...
At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...
"Lithod. by Evans & Cogswell", "Engraved by Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C."; Front Center Image: State Capitol at Columbia, S.C.; Between 1861 and 1865, the new government issued Confederate currency ...