Confederate and Southern States Currency
- Highlight
- issued during and before the Civil War by the private banks and other businesses. Illustrative vignettes
, printing, and decorative vignettes, but these bills in general are not as colorful or varied as those
sailing ships, mythological scenes, historical scenes, war scenes, agricultural scenes, places, etc. A - Abstract Or Scope
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The collection of Confederate and Southern states currency is very extensive, consisting of 3329 pieces. Of this total 2601 bills were issued by the national government, and 727 bills were issues of state governments. See also the Raphael P. Thian Papers for a large collection of Confederate and Southern States currency.
- Collection Context