Boston Athenaeum Museum: Ex-Confederate Currency

My favorite hobby is collecting old paper money. Since I was a teenager, I remember starting to become an aficionado about old currency such as owning one, two, and a ten dollar bill from twenty years ago. The fading of the old ink from the paper makes me want to have it in my own personal collection. Because I like to collect old American money, my favorite American collection is ex-confederate currency from the nineteenth century. The Boston Athenaeum museum has a collection of over six thousand items of ex-confederate currency. The Athenaeum museum’s collection contains Confederate national and state currency from the nineteenth century. The Boston Athenaeum museum offers background information to visitors like manufacturing, history of the ex-confederate currency, and a wide selection of different paper currency from every Confederate state during the pre and post Civil War. …show more content…
Students from around the state of Massachusetts and other states can enjoy and be delighted with these items that the museum offers as part of their American culture and history. The museum exhibits these ex-confederate items in a long desk with brights lights on top in which by the color of the wood from the desk it can be concluded is an antique from the twenty century. As students and visitors are entering the museum, the spectators are amaze by the museum’s architecture. The museum’s long shells are filled with every book a person could dream off. The museum’s staff members offers different tour hours in which they talk about the history and the sentimental value of these items to the museum since its part of a terrible time in American