One sold in 2011 for $28,750. The second Confederate coin is the 1861 penny, and its story is really mysterious. In early 1861, the Confederate States considered themselves a country, but the war ...

In July 1864, he was on the USS Mendota, patrolling the James River near Richmond, when a Confederate bullet hit him in the chest. Luckily, the bullet ricocheted off a small copper penny in the ...