It was a chaotic time, an exciting time and a tragic time. You would not normally think to look at the coins of the period as evidence of the situation tearing a nation apart, but in fact in the first days of the Civil War the coins did reflect the situation and those coins are all the more interesting today as a result.
As Abraham Lincoln took office on march 4, 1861, and states began to vote to leave the Union, the mints of the United States were in many cases among the most vulnerable of all the institutions when ...
Full Article: Confederate coinage notable by its lack - Numismatic News
