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Collecting Counterfeit Currency

o you collect counterfeits? Well, the Secret Service says you can’t collect U.S. Counterfeits, but you can collect Confederate States of America counterfeits. Theyaren’tU.S. currency, but we have a lot of interest in Confederate currency and that includes Confederate counterfeits. Who counterfeited them? Well, I suspect some were counterfeited below the border of the United States and the Confederacy, but the United States counterfeited them as a

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