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Cool 😎
Mr_Spud
Great piece of history. Thank you for sharing!
I feel fortunate to have, as Trenholm notes, a few of the pieces that remained, and weren’t exported to be recoined (and lost forever).
Believe a thread like this could use some Charlotte gold examples.
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Very cool info!
Great piece of history-- Thanks for sharing, and thanks to @CharlotteDude for sharing incredible examples!
Cool thread
Some Charlotte $2.50's.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/liberty-head-2-1-gold-major-sets/liberty-head-2-1-gold-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1840-1907-cac/alltimeset/268163
March of Time - 27 Centuries in Gold
https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/WCM/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=36590
Yet another interesting piece of numismatic history.
I find it interesting the suggestion from Chairman Barnwell back in 1861, that, if Confederate coinage were to be issued at that time, rather than issue Confederate dollars (which were already starting to become inflated by 1861), they instead ought to "assimilate our coins to those of France" - in other words, he was proposing that the Confederacy join what would eventually become the Latin Monetary Union, of which France was the chief driver and proponent and which was actively recruiting other friendly nations to their cause at that time.
There are all kinds of "what-if" scenarios arising from that scenario. For example, a Confederacy in the LMU wouldn't have needed a native supply of bullion for adequate circulation coinage, but could simply have imported it from other LMU member-states. Of course, they'd have needed to achieve diplomatic recognition from the Latin Monetary Union member-states first.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
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great read and thanks for sharing
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Cool post! My only 'C' in my collection:
10-4,
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The Confederacy did have two native sources of gold, the Piedmont gold from N. Carolina and the gold mined in the Dahlonega area of Georgia. Those sources of mined gold were the whole reason for setting up branch mints in Charlotte and Dahlonega. Silver was imported from Latin America for use in the New Orleans mint. I believe the New Orleans mint also sourced gold from Latin America.