Legacy Currency Grading

02/11/2026

Jason teaches this class at the ANA Summer Seminar, and was honored to be able to teach it this past Saturday at the SCNA Convention & Show!
Hope to see you next year!

30/10/2026

Did you know — Confederate government banknote issues were plagued by poor production and easily counterfeited designs that haunted the South’s economy for nearly the entire length of the Civil War. Wishing to upgrade the security of the CSA’s currency, secretary of the treasury C.G. Memminger secretly ordered upgraded security plates from England for the backs of Confederate notes. S. Straker & Sons of London made the plates using a process called electrotyping, a drawn-out electrochemical reaction that uses an electric current to stimulate conducting ions suspended in an electrolyte solution. The plates were captured en route by the Union blockade, and never reached their intended destination at the Confederate Treasury.
The term “Chemicograph”, which describes the plates, was most likely coined by S. Straker & Sons in reference to their specific electrochemical process.
Reprints have been made from the original captured plates, and are valued by collectors today as one of the “what ifs” in Civil War financial history.

28/10/2026

Jason is up and running at the South Carolina Numismatic Association Annual Convention and Coin Show!
We’ll be offering on-site grading and accepting submissions for take-home!
He’s at table K422-423!
Show is open Thursday - Saturday starting at 8:00am each day!

26/10/2026

While 1864 Confederate States of America notes are the most common banknote issue from the Southern Confederacy, they are notoriously difficult to locate in true Gem grade. This $100 is as nice as any we have seen, with full margins on all four sides, and incredibly deep embossing that highlights its full originality. It is tied with just a few others that we have seen for the finest example that we’ve graded in the last two-plus decades.

23/10/2026

Jason is accepting take home submissions at the Utah Coin Show in Sandy, UT today and tomorrow (Oct. 23-24)!
Stop by and ask him all your grading questions!

22/10/2026

Grateful for Jared and his team who make this show happen!
Our team is already in Toronto, and will be taking appointments tomorrow for picking up notes.
Email: [email protected] to set up an appointment.

The Toronto Coin Expo will celebrate 14 years in downtown Toronto when it returns to the Toronto Reference Library Oct. 23-24, bringing together more than 30 dealers, two major numismatic auctions, educational presentations and activities for young collectors. The semi-annual show will feature Canad...

21/10/2026

Legacy Currency Grading stands behind every grading opinion we’ve ever offered. Legacy’s Grading Guarantee is the most extensive warranty offered by any paper money grading service. We guarantee every single note that we’ve graded since 2005, including those certified under our prior brand name (PCGS Currency) and under the Legacy Currency Grading label.

We have always believed that having a strong grading guarantee helps protect the hobby that we love. We fully stand behind every grading opinion that we’ve ever offered, and whenever we’ve been wrong—and since we are human, occasionally we are wrong—we have always tried our best to resolve the situation and work with buyers and/or sellers to reimburse where financial loss has occurred.

Details about the Legacy Currency Grading Guarantee may be found on our website here: https://legacygrading.com/grading-guarantee/.

19/10/2026

This incredible new discovery is the first example of this issue to appear in private hands. All other known examples of this rarity are firmly ensconced in institutional or museum collections. It is soon to appear in for sale at an upcoming auction by The Canadian Numismatic Company!

17/10/2026

Legacy is accepting submissions at the Edmonton show! Dealers can submit your notes at Edmonton, and have them returned at either the Toronto Coin Expo or the Nuphilex show in Montreal!

See our Canadian representative Gabriel Côte at the Legacy table for more information!