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 ...

On many occasions people bring coins or currency to us thinking they have a scarce or valuable item, only to find out what they have is a replica, which is different from a counterfeit. What is the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. What happened to Confederate money after the ...