Money Honey

[Johnny P]

Anyone live in the Shreveport, Louisiana area. Also have a $10 and $100. Found them years ago at one of the old ArkLaTex gun shows.

[JB White]

That bill is in nice shape. Almost too nice!
To think at one time a note like that probably wouldn’t cover the cost of little hardtack and a coffee bean.

[Phloating Phlasher]

I bought a couple of packs of differing "Confederate Money" in the souvenir shop at Antietam National Battlefield.
This looks uncannily similar!

[JB White]

I too bought an assortment of “confederate currency” at one of the battlefields I visited. But those were obviously artificially aged reprints. Suitable for framing in spite of the frames costing more than the souvenirs. At the time I displayed them along with a few Italian cap n ball revolvers.
Eventually I put away the guns and gave the notes to the kids to play with.

Is this Louisiana note one of the many….
Can’t remember the proper term.
“Leftovers?” Snagged during the antebellum years?

[Johnny P]

Fake Confederate (top) and authentic $100 bill.

[Allen]

Somewhere, lost at my mother's house are 4 or 5 original confederate notes. I haven't seen them in many years but remember the smallest denomination being 50 cents and paper. The others are 1, 5, maybe a $10, nothing very large.

Odd how different states and cities printed their own currency. I assume the bills could have been used in other areas as long as they were a part of the Confederate states? I donno.

[Oyaji]

Remember back in the early '50s some breakfast cereal boxes would contain Confederate bill replicas. Want to say Kellogg's Cornflakes; maybe some other brand. Probably used as an enticement for kids to badger their parents into buying a specific brand.

[Allen]

Remember back in the early '50s some breakfast cereal boxes would contain Confederate bill replicas. Want to say Kellogg's Cornflakes; maybe some other brand. Probably used as an enticement for kids to badger their parents into buying a specific brand.

I never knew that and I remember there being a lot of prizes in cereal and laundry detergent boxes back then. I remember towels and glassware in the laundry soap boxes leaving little room for the detergent itself. I guess Cracker Jack started something.

[Johnny P]

Didn't Quaker Oats come with some small piece of glassware at one time? A small juice glass, bowl, or something like that.

[JB White]

Towels in boxes of Breeze detergent. Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton.

Cannot recall which cereal had Matchbox cars. 1 car-4 boys. Wasn’t a pleasant morning.

Saving boxtops. Plucking cork out of soda bottle caps to reveal a winner. Got caught dumping out the bottle opener on the soda machine.

[Oyaji]

Remember back in the early '50s some breakfast cereal boxes would contain Confederate bill replicas. Want to say Kellogg's Cornflakes; maybe some other brand. Probably used as an enticement for kids to badger their parents into buying a specific brand.

I never knew that and I remember there being a lot of prizes in cereal and laundry detergent boxes back then. I remember towels and glassware in the laundry soap boxes leaving little room for the detergent itself. I guess Cracker Jack started something.

Think this may have been about the time Davy Crockett lunch boxes and coonskin caps were quite popular with boys my age.