Look what my better half bought me!
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Nice one!
I am not real sure. I'm more of a coin guy, but just thought it was a nice gesture on her part.
May have been. I know $100 would be a lot back then. $100 was a lot for me in the 70's!
Congratulations on your new addition.
Thanks!
Very nice!
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Very nice example.
I found this somewhere on the internet, so it must be true:
_Confederate currency exchange rates according to Walter Lord:
"Early 1863 4 to 1 US Dollar.
After Chancellorsville, 6 to 1.
A week after Gettysburg 10 to 1.
December 1864 30 to 1
Jan 1 1865 60 to 1
A week later 70 to 1
After that no one interested."_
nice
I hope, whoever bought it, got their money out of it pretty quick.
Keeper!
Yes, the best thing to do with a depreciating currency is to spend it as quickly as possible. Was worth little for over a century but now it's been rising in value again, as collectibles.
It's a nice collectable. I know I would have spent it asap if I had lived back when the war was over, some people probably didn't though!