One hundred dollars / Confederate States of America. 1862.

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One hundred dollars / Confederate States of America. 1862.

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Fractional currency note issued in Richmond, Va. on Oct. 16, 1862. Numbered in red ink and signed in black ink by G. Johnston and W. L. Havrey. The note reads: Six months after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States ... will pay .. with interest at two cents per day. Illustrations of a railroad engine and cars and a woman with a basket on her head.

1 bill : ill. ; 8 x 19 cm.

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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...