January 16, 2010

During the Civil War, each of the Confederate states issued bonds and printed its own paper money to finance the war. So much currency was printed during the war that, by 1865, inflation was so out of control that the currency—though a sought after collector’s item today—was virtually worthless. Shown here is an early ten-dollar Arkansas Treasury Warrant.

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