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Wow worth more than American Cash
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the coins were always a different story they were always rare
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Of course the low grades were even more scarce than the high grades. Back then I also sold off my collection of large size U.S. currency & fractional currency. In two days at the Long Beach coin show I got over ten thousand dollars.
I was worried at the time that it would soon become too easy to copy the paper money & that would destroy the value especially since the Confederate money was on such poor grade paper. I am still surprised that hasn't happened.
I was playing with a friend the day that I spied the top edge of the subject canning jar. The day was sunny, but the ground was soaked from a heavy rain which is so common for the area. A heavy truck had made a run through the alleyway and the mud pushed up from the outside of its wheels had uncovered a jar that had been buried, perhaps, since about 1865. My friend saw me holding the top edge of the jar and digging it out from the mud. Inside were Confederate paper bills and coins. The bills had been double folded before the jar had been shut and buried. I wonder now, who this money might have belonged to...a young mother, a grandmother. Whoever it was, they were not rich...but it might have held about a year's wages...I forget just how much it was as the time since then has really fogged the memory. I'd like to get the address where my Sis lived...and maybe begin a search for the folks that lived near that corner address. I wonder now who these people were.
Like I said, that day was sunny. My friend and I had been running, wrestling, and such when we found the money. I was faster than he was back then...but many years later, he came in second place in the Texas high school relays in the 220 and 440, being edged out by the same racer.
Those are some good memories.