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To: wagglebee
I knew someone that bought an antique dining room table that has a large post in the middle.

When he was taking it apart to restore it, he found the center post stuffed with Confederate money!

30 posted on 05/30/2005 1:30:49 PM PDT by FReepaholic (When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading)
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To: tscislaw
When he was taking it apart to restore it, he found the center post stuffed with Confederate money!

That just brought back a memory for me...When my brother and I were young we found a stash of Confederate "bills" in trunk in our basement. We thought we hit the big time. Turns out that it was some type of give-away from the mid-60's, I think, for Campbells Soup...now that I've past 40 my memory likes to make things up...anyway, we built a little wooden box and buried the "bills" in our back yard...that was about 1975 or so...that house was over a hundred years old at the time and is still standing...I wonder if anyone has ever unearthed that "treasure"...

61 posted on 05/30/2005 2:48:41 PM PDT by in the Arena (Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 110.)
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To: tscislaw
I knew someone that bought an antique dining room table that has a large post in the middle. When he was taking it apart to restore it, he found the center post stuffed with Confederate money!

Confederate money is worth quite a bit today.

Confederate Treasury Notes

76 posted on 05/30/2005 3:25:12 PM PDT by Polybius
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