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[David Myer]

Bravo, Philip. Most enlightening and also entertaining.

[Slava]

I know of a certainty that my ancestors used their Confederate money as kindling for their wood burning stoves.

A shame, actually. It's probably worth quite a bit now. I know Confederate postage stamps go for very healthy sums.

[Philip Hudson]

Slava, I checked on this and you are right about collectors of Confederate money. I have no regrets that the family cash went up in smoke many years ago. We did have the chest in which it was kept, but in 1967 the flood brought by Hurricane Beulah pretty much ruined it.

[damoge]

Could someone please enlighten me about a "Yankee dime"?

[Philip Hudson]

A Yankee dime is a kiss. Yankee boys longed to kiss the lips of our southern belles. The belles were reluctant to comply. The Yankee boys promised the southern babes a dime if they would kiss them. Some silly gals accepted. The kiss was not remuneratively reward, the Yankee boy insisting they had already gotten a dime's worth with the kiss. The preceding is what old time southerners know. The following, from the Internet, gives a slightly different response. You have to wade through some other southernize to get to it. https://www.timesdaily.com/archives/sou ... b7e7b.html