The coins, which numbered 700 in total ... as the stunning number of over 700 gold dollars represents a virtual time capsule of Civil War-era coinage," he said in a statement.

coin Money, regulate the Value thereof ... money issued by the Confederate government), Civil War “green-backs” (for which redemption in gold was “postponed”) were for the first time ...

A rare Carlisle siege coin from the English Civil ... milled gold. The shilling is an example of an 'obsidional' or 'emergency' coin, created by Royalist towns under siege during the war to ...