Confederate
Currency Quiz

2. What notes are considered to be the most famous bogus or fantasy notes issued during the Confederacy?
Havana Counterfeit notes
The Female Riding Deer notes
Railroad Train with Straight White Steam notes

3. What is the difference between Confederate currency and Southern States currency?
Confederate States currency was issued by the C.S.A. goverment. Southern States currency includes any money issued by any of the Southern States before, during and after the Civil War
Confederate States currency was issued by the C.S.A. government. Southern States currency includes only that money which was issued by the Southern States during the Civil War
Confederate States currency was issued by the C.S.A. government. Southern States currency includes only that money which was issued by the Southern States before the Civil War

4. What Confederate bank notes are the most highly prized by collectors?
Havana Counterfeits
1864 facsimile issues
1861 Montgomery notes

5. Confederate paper money was printed on
watermarked (marked) paper
unmarked paper
marked and unmarked paper

6. In what cities was Confederate currency extensively counterfeited?
Richmond (Virginia), Montgomery (Alabama) and Atlanta (Georgia)
Louisville (Kentucky), New York City, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Havana (Cuba)
Confederate currency was not extensively counterfeited

7. Who was the most famous counterfeiter of Confederate bank notes?
Jefferson Davis of Richmond, Virginia
Samuel C. Upham of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Banastre Tarleton of Liverpool, England

8. The popular $10 Richmond note dated Sept. 2, 1861 is best known as the
Watermelon note
Sweet Potato note
General Marion (Swamp Fox) note

9. Is it possible to officially redeem money once issued by the Confederate States of America for current U.S. money?
yes
no
yes, but only in the Southern States

10. What elaborate backs (metal plates for the reverses) were prepared for the 1864 issue but were never used because of insufficient quantities or they were lost or captured?
steel plates ordered in 1863 from Samuel C. Upham of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chemicographic plates ordered in 1863 from S. Straker & Sons of London, England
copper plates ordered from Keatinge & Ball of Richmond, Virginia

Score =
A+ (100%)  Numismatic Authority on Confederate Currency
A (90-99%) Expert Numismatist
B (80-89%) Numismatist
C (70-79%) Advanced Collector
D (60-69%) Collector
F  (0-59%)  Novice Collector
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