@Scoffin
1/4 Some years back, I was contacted by a man writing an article for a #Numismatics ( #coin and #PaperMoney collecting) magazine. The man had found my #FamilyTree online, and wanted to know if I had any photos for my ancestor, Capt. John Henry Freligh. (I didn't.)

He told me that my #ancestor had printed much of the #currency for the #Confederacy .

I knew Capt. Freligh had been a #steamboat Captain, and had published a newspaper for a short time. And family stories said he was friends with Conf.Pres. Jefferson Davis. I even knew that Capt. Freligh's wife was a spy for the South (smuggling information & medicine in the buttons of her dress, across enemy lines).

But I was surprised that out of all those stories, the one that had been lost in our #OralHistory was that he was entrusted with printing the paper money for the South! (He was half of "Freligh & Hutton" on the images below.)

#Genealogy #Genealogist #History
#CivilWar #CivilWarHistory

So I just found out that Argentina has such beautiful paper money. Can we just appreciate this? Also, please let me know if you guys know any other fish money #papermoney #prettymoney #whale #argentina #paperbills