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Although most Confederate money was paper they did mint a small number of silver coins at New Orleans. The US Mint there was successively run by the briefly independent state of Louisiana and then by the Confederate government until the fall of the city in 1862. Almost none of these half dollars have survived, but […]
Save Those Confederate (half) Dollars, Boys!
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Categories: Civil War Odds & Ends · Economic History
Tags: · Confederate coins, Seated Liberty Half Dollar, SS Republic
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