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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;George Corell, post: 2042648, member: 72869&quot;]I am familiar with the Knights of the Golden Circle.&nbsp; I am familiar with their stashing money and weapons for a future uprising, but know of no attempt to issue or counterexample money.&nbsp; However there is a rumor of a blockade runner sunk by the Union on the Grand Banks that is loaded with counterbalanced doubloons and pieces of eight.&nbsp; The blockade runner was on its way to Halifax to pay for and pickup war supplies purchased from England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, through the SCV I received a report allegedly in a Tennessee newspaper, though I have yet to receive a copy of that article, that dies for Confederate gold coin had been acquired and shipped to the Mint at Dahlonega.&nbsp; Possible I guess, I can place treasury activity in that mint during the war.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1980 while living in Dahlonega I was introduced to an old woman from Dahlonega all her life who was well known and highly respected that through her late grandfather, himself a mint employee, that some silver coins were struck there during the war.&nbsp; I believe what she told me.&nbsp; Gramp had no reason to lie about that subject to his then 12 yr. old granddaughter anymore than she had any reason to lie to me. She merely passed on to me a bit of family history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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