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Originally Posted by John the Jute  Did the same happen in the War Between the States? |
Not with coinage. Early in the war, the Confederacy siezed the Mints at New Orleans and Dahlonega (Georgia), but did very little with them; they had almost no gold or silver for making coinage.
There were
some coins minted by the Confederacy; genuine examples are quite spendy.
I suppose there were some tokens which might have inspired some emotion, but emotions were already running very high due to much weightier issues. I doubt coins or tokens fanned the flames very much compared to the underlying issues of the day.
