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  2. The Curse of Civil War Gold - Wikipedia

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    Gary and Brad find a nail, a belt buckle, and a Confederate coin while in the basement, the GPR indicates the possibility of a tunnel. They remove the bricks and dig down, finding wood about 3 ft (1 m) down. Eventually they locate a coin in the hole about 4 ft (1 m) down.

  3. What Are Civil War Coins and How Valuable Can They Be? - AOL

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    Civil War-era coins made big headlines over the summer when a Kentucky man unearthed hundreds of lost gold coins and became about $2 million richer because of it. His discovery, made in a ...

  4. Greenback (1860s money) - Wikipedia

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    Before the Civil War, the United States used gold and silver coins as its official currency. Paper currency in the form of banknotes was issued by privately owned banks, the notes being redeemable for specie at the bank's office. Such notes had value only if the bank could be counted on to redeem them; if a bank failed, its notes became worthless.

  5. Confederate States dollar - Wikipedia

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    By the war's end, a cake of soap could sell for as much as $50, and an ordinary suit of clothes was $2,700. [7] Near the end of the war, the currency became practically worthless as a medium of exchange. This was because, for the most part, Confederate currency was bills of credit, as in the Revolutionary War, not secured or backed by any assets.

  6. The Civil War (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Mathew Brady's photographs inspired Burns to make The Civil War, which (in nine episodes totaling more than 10 hours) explores the war's military, social, and political facets through some 16,000 contemporary photographs and paintings, and excerpts from the letters and journals of persons famous and obscure.

  7. Civil War Battlefields commemorative coins - Wikipedia

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    The obverse of the Civil War Battlefields commemorative dollar, designed by Don Troiani, features an infantryman raising a canteen to the lips of a wounded foe. The reverse, designed by John Mercanti , features a quotation from Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain , the college professor from Maine who became one of the heroes of Gettysburg .

  8. Middleham Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The Middleham Hoard is a coin hoard found near Middleham, North Yorkshire in England. It dates from the period of the English Civil War, and consists of 5,099 coins, all silver. It is the largest hoard of coins buried during the Civil War to have been discovered. [1] The hoard was discovered in June 1993 by William Caygill while using a metal ...

  9. Two-cent piece (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The rest of the coin is filled with the name of the country. [30] Art historian Cornelius Vermeule deemed the two-cent piece "the most Gothic and the most expressive of the Civil War" of all American coins. [33] "The shield, arrows, and wreath of the obverse need only flanking cannon to be the consummate expression of Civil War heraldry."