Serial Number: 16760

How To Tell If Confederate Money Is Real Or Fake Pictures
How To Tell If Confederate Money Is Real Or Fake Gold

Most real CSA currency contains writing - most bills have hand written numbering and signatures - in iron gall ink. Some denominations used a stamp for numbering but at the very least the treasurer had to sign the note. Iron gall ink has a dark brown color, but it also oxidizes over time which leads to bleeding through the back of the note. How To Tell If Your Confederate Note Is Real.CSA fakes A List Of Known Confederate Note Facsimiles I frequently receive e-mails from persons wanting to know if the $500 Confederate note featuring the picture of Stonewall Jackson they have had in the family for ages, is real or not.

How To Tell If Confederate Money Is Real Or Fake Pictures

Note: This particular bill says copy. Many will not say copy. Just because yours does not say copy, does not mean that it is authentic. These have been printed since the 1920s. We bought these a few weeks ago at a museum. You can buy them on ebay right now. A pack of 10 bills costs about $1. They are meant to look very old. Anything printed on brown thin paper with a black overprint is 100% fake. DO NOT CALL us if you have one. We are not buyers and we will not make you an offer. They have no value whatsoever. Yours might have a different serial number than what we have shown. If it looks like our bill then it is fake (even if the serial number is different). SORRY

Text: The Confederate States Of America – Will Pay To Bearer On Demand – Five Hundred Dollars -Two Years After The Ratification Of A Treaty Of Peace Between The Confederate States And The United States – Richmond, Feb 17th 1861 – Receivable In Payment Of All Dues Except Export Duties

US Confederate States 1 Cent (Counterfeit) 1861 and 1862

Since less than 20 genuine Confederate States of American (CSA) cents were ever struck, any piece you find today is most certainly a replica of this famous coin.
The coin in our picture is a counterfeit. It sells for a few US dollars as a novelty piece. If it were genuine, the catalogs say its value would be $120,000 US dollars!
The CSA also minted a half dollar. You can read about it at this CoinQuest link.
Perhaps your coin looks similar to the one in our second picture. This coin is a restrike. Restrikes are coins made from original dies, but they are struck well after the original date. It turns out that a man named Bashlow uncovered the old (genuine) Conferederate dies in 1961. By that time the dies had been pretty well beat up. There are hammer blows on the obverse (heads side) and chisel marks on the reverse (tails side). Mr. Bashlow hired a private mint to produce a short series of restruck CSA cents, and these carry strong collector premiums today. If you have one in basically uncirculated condition, you might sell it for over $200. Circulated or damaged Bashlow restrikes are worth substantially less than $200.
There is a great write-up about the CSA and related coinage at US Coin Values Advisor.
NEVER CLEAN A COIN. CLEANING RUINS VALUE.
The image below shows a side-by-side comparison of genuine and counterfeit CSA cents. With a magnifier and little patience, you can easily tell them apart by inspecting subtle design features. In our example, the hair on one coin is completely different, and other marked differences also appear. There are several different replica coins.

To add more confusion, there are odd denomination pieces kicking around with markings like 1/100, 1/10, 1/4 cent, and 5 dollars. These are all fakes and reproductions of one kind or another. Most of them are designed to fool unwary tourists during their treks through Dixieland. All are worthless, or of low value.
CoinQuest thanks CoinHelp for use of their picture of a genuine cent.

How To Tell If Confederate Money Is Real Or Fake Gold

Coin: 3936, Genre: United States, Timeline: World
Created (yyyymm): 201004, Last review: 202004
Appearance: Normal round coin Metallic brown Letters: Latin
Years: sort: 1861, filter: 1861 to 1862
Image: us_confederate_1_cent.jpg
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