Confederate Currency

Confederate Currency
Author: Pierre Fricke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0747812721

On February 4, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed, and almost immediately the first Confederate notes were printed – the famous “Montgomery” notes. These would be followed by many designs over the next four years. The seventy different designs or “type” notes are eagerly sought today by collectors, historians and family historians, and a collection of Confederate currency offers fascinating insights into the tumultuous Civil-War period. Pierre Fricke examines these series of Confederate notes, highlighting the history and circumstances in which they were created. This easy-to-read, fun and educational book offers an introduction to the often beautiful notes that financed the Confederacy.

Confederate Treasury Notes

Confederate Treasury Notes
Author: Dave Nelson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781453816554

A photographic guide to Confederate currency issued by the Confederate States Government during the War Between the States (US Civil War). This must have book for the Confederate currency collector is loaded with reference material and current banknote values. Contains color photos of the actual currency.

Confederate Currency

Confederate Currency
Author: John W. Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002
Genre: Money
ISBN: 9780972282321

Confederate Currency Exhibition Catalogue is the companion book to the nationally acclaimed traveling exhibition by John W. Jones. The exhibition pairs images of enslaved Africans engraved on Confederate money with paintings inspired by the engravings.The popular exhibition has broken museum attendance records and has been critiqued and described in articles in 456 publications, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. CNN, PBS and NPR.In the book, slaves are shown clearing farmlands, planting cotton, hoeing fields, picking cotton, baling cotton, carrying cotton, bringing cotton bales to the market, steamboats and trains. There are bank notes showing slaves cooking for their white masters in SC, picking sugar cane in Tennessee and Alabama, harvesting turpentine in Georgia, carrying tobacco in Texas, feeding a horse in Virginia, harvesting corn in Missouri, working in a factory in NC, and even working on a wheat farm for George Washington.This book is the first documentation of slavery on Confederate and Southern money in one collection, and is sure to become an indispensable reference work for paper money collectors. The introduction, five scholarly essays and time-line will interest historians, museum professional, students and general readers. It includes a free CD-ROM with images of hundreds of additional currencies that show depictions of slavery.

Counterfeit Currency of the Confederate States of America

Counterfeit Currency of the Confederate States of America
Author: George B. Tremmel
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Since shortly after the end of the Civil War, genuine Confederate paper money has been the subject of much research. While a number of publications are available today that describe and catalog the genuine currency, the availability of published information on its counterfeit counterpart is limited. What is available is somewhat incomplete, inaccurate and general in scope. This work is specifically concerned with the counterfeit currency that was produced and passed with genuine Confederate paper money during the Civil War years. The first part of the book is an historical narrative that discusses the events and people involved in the production and passing of counterfeit currency, and the countermeasures of the Confederate Treasury Department to protect its already weak medium of exchange from losing even more value. The second part of the book is an illustrated catalog that presents descriptions of all known examples of counterfeit Confederate currency. Over 180 illustrations are included and show most of the counterfeit notes. The appendix provides a brief, nontechnical explanation of the printing processes--relief printing, intaglio printing, and lithography--used in the mid-nineteenth century to manufacture counterfeit currency.

Queen of the Confederacy

Queen of the Confederacy
Author: Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1574411462

This is a story of a remarkable woman - Lucy Holcombe Pickens - the wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War.

Collecting Confederate Paper Money

Collecting Confederate Paper Money
Author: Pierre Fricke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2014
Genre: Paper money
ISBN: 9780984453498

When building a collection of Confederate paper money, knowledge of rarity, prices, and especially grading is critical. Fricke provides a thorough introduction.

The Ascent of Money

The Ascent of Money
Author: Niall Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2008-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1440654026

The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency "[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." —The Washington Post "Fascinating." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens. The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.

A Guide Book of United States Paper Money

A Guide Book of United States Paper Money
Author: Arthur L. Friedberg
Publisher: Whitman Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Paper money
ISBN: 9780794817862

"Immerse yourself in the romance and beauty of nearly 150 years of American currency. It all comes alive in A GUIDE BOOK OF UNITED STATES PAPER MONEY, fifth edition. An engaging history book and a comprehensive catalog of valuations rolled into one, this guide covers all federal series issued from the Civil War to the present day. Paper-money collectors will appreciate the depth of the research, and American history buffs will find the narrative fascinating. Whether you're new to the hobby or a longtime collector or dealer, you will benefit from the data provided for each currency series. Market valuations are compiled from recent sale and auction records, real-world analysis of the paper-money field, and the knowledge of recognized hobby leaders. Hundreds of notes are pictured in crisp, full-color detail, face and back--dramatically illustrating the nation's history and its ideals." -- page 4 of cover.