Collecting Confederate Paper Money - Field Edition 2014

Award winning author Pierre Fricke released the new portable Confederate States paper money guide that people have asked for! This is a full color, 574 page guide that is easy to use and carry around.

This book includes history, grading, rarity and values for all 70 types, all significant known varieties, all major contemporary counterfeit types, Trans-Mississippi issues, train and hoer place issued, military and civilian issuers, and CSA bonds!

I've recieved input from over 200 people. This is a major update from the 2008 edition.

There are several innovations present in this book, not found in any other paper money book. The regular issue and contemporary counterfeits are presented side-by-side, helping people tell the difference. Confederate type notes are valued using traditional grading as well as third party grading by CC&A, PCGS and PMG. There is a summary of both the type and variety condition census contained within. There is new information regarding the evolution of the hobby which has been quite dramatic this decade - moreso than in any time in the past with the possible exceptions of the 1880s and 1950s. Some of this includes more about how to navigate the different styles of grading - including a table mapping equivalent grades across collector-oriented, market-oriented, CC&A, PCGS and other grading services.

This is a must have book for anyone with more than a couple of hundred dollars worth of Confederate paper money and bonds!

Unlike mass-market, discount books, this is a high value book designed to give the collector an edge!

What you will find

• 100 pages of introductory material including history, ways to collect, and the only photo grading guide for CSA currency
• Collector-oriented grading pricing and third party PCGS/PMG grading pricing Updated rarity ratings and condition census
• Price and rarity guide for Trains and Hoers (T-39-40-41) people and places issued
• Price guide for Trans-Mississippi notes
• Values for type notes in choice, average, cut-cancelled and cut-out-cancelled
• Values for rare varieties based on actual transactions
• Values for contemporary counterfeit types
• Values for CSA bonds
• Hundreds of color pictures drawn from the greatest and most extensive type and variety collections
• 200+ people s input included Based on hundreds of person-years of research going back to the late 1800s