"Lithod. by Evans & Cogswell", "Engraved by Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C."; Front Center Image: State Capitol at Columbia, S.C.; Between 1861 and 1865, the new government issued Confederate currency ...
A US stationery store owner began a counterfeiting operation on March 12, 1862, which would crash an entire country's economy. As the Confederate States of America broke away from the US during the ...