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Confederate currency

DateSeptember 2, 1861
Terms
  • Currency
  • Ink
  • Paper
  • Richmond
Dimensions7.61 × 5.08 cm (3 × 2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold Cabot (1988)
Object numberPER2349.0003
DescriptionConfederate currency paper money (savings bond). $5 (five) dollars. Confederate States of America will pay five dollars "six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the confederate states and the united states." Richmond, Sept. 2nd, 1861. Fundable in Eight Per Cent Stock. Civil War.
Object number: PER2349.0001A,B
October 1, 1861
Object number: 2023.18.1.73
Object number: F2134D
ca. 1863
Object number: 2023.18.1.58