

Carlin) 1863 ID Number 1998.0063.0046 catalog number 1998.0063.0046 accession number 1998. The 50 Confederate banknote (Figure 10), printed by the Southern Bank Note Co. Find 25 Cent Confederate Bank Note 1863 stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock. National Archives and Records Administration (through John W. Confederate States of America will pay to the bearer on demand Two Dollars. (serial no.) Two Years after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States & the United States of America. The note was called in and canceled later in the war, which explains the hole. Potrait of President Jefferson Davis at center. Hunter, sometime senator and secretary of state. 442-45) was clearly concerned that the initial voluntary exchanges of money. Someone added a straight pin, taking no chances. At least by the beginning of 1863, Confederate Secretary Memminger (1863a, pp. The old stamp got a new use, and the bill it strengthened a new lease on life. One can conjecture that it was either damaged and rendered unfit for postage or had become virtually worthless as inflation worsened later in the war. That's what the blue Federal stamp is doing on the back of this note. They still came in handy for reinforcing money. That put the provisionals out of business, and it also meant that Yankee postage stamps (which had sometimes continued in use in the absence of anything else) could be declared null and void for postage. Obsolete Currency refers to paper money that was issued by entities other than the Federal Government, and generally in the period of 1782 - 1866. But now the government at Richmond was able to issue official Confederate stamps. Prior to that time, "provisional" postal issues had been produced by a range of cities and towns. On the obverse of the 1864 50 Cents Confederate Currency Notes is a right-profile portrait of President Jefferson Davis. The Confederacy got around part of the problem during the first summer of the war. Stamps were meant to move the mails and therefore had a small but definite value as useful objects. Object Details engraver Keatinge & Ball Description Postage stamps must have seemed heaven-sent to the would-be restorer of Confederate money-they came with their own glue! But there was a problem. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
