Confederate currency: $50 bill with serial number 17498

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Abstract
The C.S.A. issued currency to Southerners between 1861-1865, gambling that a Confederate victory in the U.S. Civil War would ensure the bills' value. Forged bills led to an intense period of inflation and by the war's end Confederate bills were worthless.
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Paper money
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February 17, 1864
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Finding Aid available at http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/60
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Confederate currency: $50 bill with serial number 17498. 1864. From Woodson Research Center, Rice University, John H. Wright collection of U.S. Civil War and related ephemera collection, 1838-1936, MS 61. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21815.
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