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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ConfederateHalf, post: 24628221, member: 27946&quot;]I bought my first CSA notes way back in the early 1970’s.&nbsp; As I recall, I bought a $100 Train Note with cancellation stamps on back, and a $50 Jeff Davis note.&nbsp; Not sure today what their T-numbers would have been.&nbsp; I was just fascinated with the Civil War and thought owning Confederate money would be cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought these notes very cheaply back then.&nbsp; I don’t recall exactly what I paid, but it could not have been much for than $10 or $20 for the pair, at most, because I rarely had more than that to spend as a kid.&nbsp; I purchased them in the - get this - “Coin Department” on the 8th Floor of the old Foley’s Department Store in downtown Houston, Texas.&nbsp; I often bought coins there as a kid.&nbsp; A very old school place with the button activated, rotating trays in glass cases.&nbsp; It was still the sort of coin department where they would place my raw uncirculated wheat penny purchases in those tiny 2x2 paper envelopes with a flap on back and the clerk would write the date and type of coin on the front of the envelope with a No. 2 pencil.</p><p><br /></p><p>That Foley’s building was torn down about 10 or 15 years ago after decades of decline, but in the 1970’s it was the flagship of the Foley’s chain and was equivalent to a Macy’s department store, which ultimately bought them out as I recall.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sold the notes sometime in the 1980’s for not much more than I paid for them.&nbsp; Too bad.&nbsp; No telling what I had.&nbsp; I had no good guide books back then.&nbsp; Yeah, Grover Criswell had books, but I didn’t know about them at that age.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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