Here is a Confederate $20.00 Note dated September 2, 1861. It has a small hole and a little tear on the bottom right yet it still grades VF. Unless you hold this note in your hand you wouldn’t believe how thin the paper is. If you look at the backside of the note, nothing has been printed on it, which is normal. However, you can see the entire design of the front through the paper. It’s one of the thinnest notes I’ve ever held.
It’s simplest, the cost. The south did not have a lot of funds at the time of the war therefore, very few of the notes they printed contained writing on the back. A few of the notes do have it, but the south only made 72 notes. I have about 30 of them. The rest of the ones I need start to get very expensive but I’d like to buy them. I just haven’t seen the ones I need.
Go figure. The Union wins the war but have the most expensive relics and currency IMO. Just price out Confederate buttons and buckles from collections and "dug" up.
The northern are crazy people. Gettysburg national Battlefield is not too far from my house. It is amazing the number of monuments in that park erected for the Northern side. The southern side does not have that many. The reason is the Northern’s side wouldn’t give the south states permission to erect, a monument.
165 years later, the wounds are still deep. There are still a very few people around who knew people who fought in the Civil War, both sides.
I have Civil War history on both parents sides, and on both sides of the conflict. Problem with being descended from ancestors that lived in border states.
