The Treasury Department Fire of 1833: How Andrew Jackson’s Currency Archives Were Destroyed and What Was Lost
On the night of March 31, 1833, a fire gutted the Treasury Department building in Washington, D.C., destroying irreplaceable records, printing plates, and currency archives from the early republic. For collectors of early American paper money, this disaster explains why certain notes from the 1810s and 1820s exist without official documentation and why some of the most significant numismatic mysteries of the era may never be solved.
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