I would imagine you would have to contact a coin or money collector to get the value of the money. A coin dealer will pretty much give you only the face value of the money.Not much more. Probably search on the internet would help you find people who would be interested. Shirley Delilah <diamond6468@mindspring.com> wrote:I'm not too polite, tell me what and who to ask for and I will call her. It should be in the archives or better the family. BTW what are Confederate Dollars worth? (monetarily now) delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Tomlin" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [ALMacon] confederate dollars etc. > Does she have children that you might get interested? > > Polly wrote:Shirly, I believe the same...that the "worthless" money is a treasure! But > unfortunately it (and a lot of other precious letters, maps, deeds, & god > knows what) are in the possession of my mother's first cousin who lives in > Montgomery, is in her 80s, and appears to have Zero interrest in genealogy! > I am too polite to ask this woman, who is a stranger to me, to send me all > this stuff. I don't care about the dollar value of the Confederate money, > and in fact think it should be donated to a museum, but it is frustrating to > me and my mother that all these clues to this ancestry/history are in a > closet! We live in the North and can't easily peruse it at her house. I > have a theory, from what coorespondence I have had with her about family, > that the CW and the "prewar glory" that all got lost, is a sore topic; > something to "get over".....but it's hard to say; there are just lots of > people sitting on treasures that people like us, who love digging into the > past, would value more than gold......frustrating!!! > > Polly > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237