Facsimile Confederate Notes

I'm sorry to hear about your grandpa, by the way...

KoinKid, I'm sorry to hear about your Grandpa. One thing to check out is the back of these notes. There were advertising notes made around the early 1900's with an image of a confererate note on the front with the word facsimile and the back had some business's advertising on it. These are collectable. You might have to take them out of the frame.

Quick checks:

Originals are hand signed and numbered. If all ink is the same solid black, they're prolly fakes. Printer's ink stays black, pen ink fades to brown, blue, green and reds, and sometimes eats through the paper.

Real notes were normally printed on rag paper, just like today, even well-worn notes look like wrinkled clothes. Fakes are often found on brittle paper that looks like kaughy was spilled on it. It would be foolish to print on brittle paper, the second time it was folded, you'd have to trash it.

, Byron C Trott!

Read the post right above yours.

Put the serial numbers in google and see if they match known fakes, like the infamous 8894.