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Descriptive Summary
Title: Paper Currency Collection
Dates: 1767-1973
Collection Number: GC 1141
Creator/Collector:
Extent: (Boxes: ½ width; ½ legal)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: United States currency: early colonial and continental; pre-Civil War state-issued; Civil War-era and Confederate States of
America; postage and fractional currency; and some 20th century bills. U.S. Military Payment Certificates from 20th century.
Foreign currency: from a variety of countries; Japanese occupation currency from the Philippines; German World War I-era and
post-war 'notgeld' inflation or emergency money; and a few allied military scrip.
Language of Material: English
Access
Research is by appointment only
Publication Rights
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Preferred Citation
Paper Currency Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Scope and Content of Collection
United States currency: early colonial and continental; pre-Civil War state-issued; Civil War-era and Confederate States of
America; postage and fractional currency; and some 20th century bills. U.S. Military Payment Certificates from 20th century.
Foreign currency: from a variety of countries; Japanese occupation currency from the Philippines; German World War I-era and
post-war 'notgeld' inflation or emergency money; and a few allied military scrip.