Downward Spiral
Paper Money
5 min read
Residents of Mobile, Alabama, who had not been keeping up with the financial news were [...]
Downward Spiral
Paper Money
Read engaging stories about historic and modern paper currency from all over the world written by today’s top collectors.
Holy Land
Paper Money
4 min read
In the mid-1990s, I was presented with the unique opportunity to travel overseas for the [...]
Holy Land
Paper Pandemonium
Paper Money
5 min read
The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 brought about one predictable result—coins disappeared from [...]
Paper Pandemonium
Anatomy of a Bank Failure
Paper Money
3 min read
One of the more celebrated bank failures in pre-Civil War America involved the Cochituate Bank [...]
Anatomy of a Bank Failure
Egyptian Pharoah
Paper Money
5 min read
While reviewing my bank-note collection, I noticed that the most popular video on my YouTube [...]
Egyptian Pharoah
Handcrafted Fabrications
Paper Money
5 min read
Banking in pre-Civil War America was challenging even in the best of times. As if [...]
Handcrafted Fabrications
Back from the Dead
Paper Money
5 min read
By modern standards, some very unusual entities issued paper money in pre-Civil War America. One [...]
Back from the Dead
Clash of Cultures
Paper Money
3 min read
One of modern China’s more interesting bank notes, to me anyway, is the 50-yuan note. [...]
Clash of Cultures
Funding Public Works
Paper Money
5 min read
One of the more interesting areas of pre-Federal paper money is issues of the 13 [...]
Funding Public Works
Financial Losses
Paper Money
5 min read
Located just south of Indianapolis, Johnson County is primarily an agricultural area, although industry has [...]
Financial Losses