Confederate Currency 1861-1865 Confederate Treasury notes or currency was issued by the national government of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 in seven series. There are 70 regular issue types to collect, three popular fantasy notes, contemporary counterfeits made mostly in the Union, varieties of the types including major. A co-worker of mine found these notes in the bottom of a bank vault he's cleaning out. I know pretty much zero when it comes to confederate currency, but one thing i've learned in the last couple hours of research is that there's a lot of counterfeits and reprints out there. I want to say these all seem to pass the various legitimacy tests i've found (brown ink, not parchment paper, ink.

How To Tell If Old Confederate Money Is Real Worth
How To Tell If Old Confederate Money Is Real Money
How To Tell If Old Confederate Money Is Real Silver
How To Tell If Old Confederate Money Is Real Gold

BOGUS or Facsimile [It's Not Real]

You can tell Fake Paper Money by the Serial Number Check your notes against this list before writing. If your note matches a listed serial number it will be FAKE and has No Collector Value. These items have all been produced since the turn of the century. Most produced up to around 1945 were used for advertising on one side and it's easy to tell that it's not real. The Bogus Notes listed below were first produced around 1948 at the end of World War II when Americans started taking vacations and there were even greater numbers made from 1960-1965 for the WAR Centennial. [Civil War to you Yankees] If you go to any of the National Parks and many State Parks you can still buy examples of these in the gift shops. Some you can purchase today are exactly like those first made over 50 years ago. While I have listed every piece I've seen or been told about over the past five years, new examples surface from time to time. If you run across one, please email me the date and serial number. I would also like an image. Your name will also be added to my list of Contributors to this page!

Confederate currency was issued by the Confederate States of America as well as by individual states and local governments during the American Civil War. The bills were generally hand-signed. The local and state-issued currency was often hand-cut with scissors, rather than mechanically cut. Usually, print runs of Confederate money had 500, 100. The third step is to place the bill under a ultraviolet (UV) light source to make sure that the paper itself does not glow. The paper that real money is printed on absorbs light as opposed to reflecting it, which gives it a dull appearance under UV light.

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Col Crutch Williams CSA
This page last updated with a New Addition to CSA
September 25, 2018

Dane Courney suggested that I add the following comment for novice Collectors of CSA, Republic of Texas and other Obsolete Notes on 18 July 2017 . He said,
'Look at your note with a magnifying glass. If you see a lot of dots, the note is a fake. The dots are produced by halftone printing. No real Confederate note was ever printed using this method'

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How To Tell If Old Confederate Money Is Real Worth

Please Note: Since serial numbers are most often handwritten, it is sometimes hard to read them and people reporting them make mistakes. So I have listed both numbers. It's obviously one or the other. There is also a REAL note somewhere out there for each of these too. Someone had to have the real note to make the copy from it. A ? means unsure of digit. If you have any other information regarding one of these reported serial numbers such as DATE or TYPE please forward that too.

CONFEDERATE States of America
Denomination Date Serial Number
$ 0.50 1863 T63 #104508 T63 #861343 #104199 {April 6th}
1864 {Feb 17th} #6850 #83999
$ 1.00 1862 {June 2} #49092 #50381 {Dec 2} #658 T44 #355
1863 {April 1} #18094 T62 #1468
1864 {Feb 17} #3691 #28490 #32984 #42507 #46171 #76280
#82129 #(another82129) #83383 #85087
$ 2.00 [Year / Type unknown] #46893
1862 {June 2} 48590 #211765 {Dec 2} #37232
{Type or Date Unknown} #2473 #6476
1863 {April 6} #46695 #51572
1863 #46695
1864 {Feb 17} #4505 #18491 {Bogus Sheet} #18491 {Ad Note} #32098 or 34098
#37544 #48840 Black #74585 Green #74585 #93609 #94505 #98840
$ 3.00 Not sure of date. Serial numbers vary. Looks to be either 1862 or 1863. Fantasy created 2009
$ 5.00 1861 T33 #11225 T34 #24497, T37 #4763 (rev) T36 #138590
{Unknown}{July 25} #1953 #2070 {Sept 2} #16767 #138590
1862 {Dec 2} #6250
1863 {April 6} #16165 #81072
1864 {Feb 17} #1138 #19640 #76280 #18262 #23580, {1863 reverse} #45806,
#47333 {ad} #50130 (blank back) #68771 #46147 #50243 #68414 #76280
$10.00 1861 {July 25}T10 #61746 {Sept 2}T26 #970 #5089 > Sheet of 3 #19107 #77389
{Sept 2} #94129 #91497 T24 #8005 T26 {similar to next} #1484 T26 #8007 T26 #470
T28 #77389
1862 {Sept 2} #581355 {Dec 2} #2973
1863 {April 6} #37728 #50883
1864 {Feb 17} #8470, #9825 {ad} #14077 #22462 #31680 #32515 #35342 #35342(Diff design)
#39911 #40620 #40679 #45447 #45956#49987<(Plate&Flipped) #55411 #66037
#83185 #83616 C #83826 #96636
$20.00 1861 T18 (plate7 - rev) {T20 Sept 2} #15247 (wrong portrait) T20 #15247[same note: correct portrait]
#131720 T21 $20 #11220T21 $20 (modern known with various serial #) 76007 / rev
1862 {Dec 2} #39590 #61372
1863 {Apr 6} #77786 No # May COPY
1864 {Feb 17} #1372 #2625 #10482 #13410 #22224 #23483#35021#32875 C#46410 #56809
#68327 #68573 #76627 #80967 #81731 #93941
$50.00 1861 T4 #1365 T6 #3866 {July 25} #21614 #49935 #93351 {Sept 2} #18441
T16{Ad}#18443 #23961 T14 #23510 T14 #31351
1862 {Dec 2} #60423 T50 #85165
1863 {Apr 6} #3987 #4553 #57557 < (Same as last? Modern various serial #) #57257rev
1864 #5670 {#5920}? #11999 #14949 #24791 #25674 #4277 C #50935 #59204
#61891 #72104 #72321 #77114
$100.00 1861 T3 #1367 {Type?} #85 #4182 {T7 July 25} #4332 #323118
{Date & Type Unknown} #457 or #487 [with green overprint so probably 1861]
1862 Trains T39/40): {May 8} #108? * Rev {T40 w/Blue Back} #25208 #52042 #60182
Hoers (T41): #57939 #65798 #127208 {Blue} #4144? #53453 #? BLUE
#50371 #84389 #148406 (modern ebay item) Many with No #___
1863 {Apr 6} #84 #933 #2248 #2575 #29063 #29200
Modern Various Serial # = #57226rev
1864 #801 #4398 #20396 #29026 #33193 #41567 #43418 #44248 #47128
#6218 C #79243 #85117 #92685
Fantasy: Design 1864 $10. Two Variety: #49987_A(back same