People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — CONFEDERATE MONEY. [ARTICLE]

CONFEDERATE MONEY.

#80,000,000 of Bills Issued by the Departed Nation Shipped to Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Constitution. Eighty million dollars in bills were shipped to Atlanta yesterday, the mammoth packages of money filling five large dry goods boxes, and making in all more than a dray load. None of the bills are current, however, as they represent “nothing in God’s earth now and naught in the waters below it.” They were Confederate bills of the rarest type. The huge pile of genuine Confederate money was shipped here from Richmond, Va., the former capital of the Confederacy, and is now the property of Mr. Chas. D. Barker, No. 90, S. Forsyth street, this city. The money is of every denomination issued by the departed nation, and in the big collection are bills of the rarest type. There are bills issued during every year of the war. Thousands of them are valuable as relics, but the great number of them Mr. Barker has on hand will make them so common as to bring but little on the market. This eighty millions of dollars of Confederate money has been all along supposed to have been destroyed. This is undoubtedly the largest lot of Confederate money in the world.