Fifty cents / Confederate States of America. [1863-1864]

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Fifty cents / Confederate States of America. [1863-1864]

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Fractional currency notes issued in Richmond, Va. between April 6, 1863 and Feb. 17, 1864. The notes are numbered and signed on pink tinted paper. The1863 notes state that they are redeemable, "Six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and United States." The 1864 notes read: "Two years after the ratification of a treaty ..."

4 items ; 6 x 11 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Confederate States of America

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During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to th...