Confederate money

[Adminenkainen]

Today's question was inspired by reading the "Eagle Scouts of Rosedale, U.S.A." story in Eagle Comics #2 (Rural Home Comics, 1945).

In it, the boys are gypped out of being paid for flying a passenger somewhere in their plane because he paid them in "worthless" confederate money. Yet, today, confederate money is valuable to collectors. My question is, does anyone have any idea when collectors started collecting confederate money?

[archersix]

In the 1960's when the hundredth anniversary of the Civil War rolled around, all things Civil War became popular. That's when things like Civil War re-enactors really got rolling. It's just an educated guess on my part, but I bet that's when things like Confederate currency (which is common for the most part) became valuable.

It has always been a trope in popular entertainment that the stuff is worthless. We watched an episode of Little House on the Prairie last night where that factored into the plot. I remember at least one episode of Beverly Hillbillies with the same.