5 Dollars

Features

Issuer	Confederate States (United States)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Years	1862-1863
Value	5 Dollars
Currency	Dollar
Composition	Paper
Size	179 × 75 mm
Shape	Rectangular (Hand-cut)
Demonetized	1865
Number	N# 313418
References	P# 51, 59 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Obverse

The Confederate Capitol Building (current Virginia State Capitol) at top center.
Portrait of Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury at bottom right.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FUNDABLE IN STOCKS OR BONDS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.

TWO YEARS AFTER THE RATIFICATION OF A TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE CONFEDERATE STATES & THE UNITED STATES

The Confederate States of America
WILL PAY TO Bearer FIVE DOLLARS.
Richmond 5

RECEIVABLE IN PAYMENT OF ALL DUES EXCEPT EXPORT DUTIES.

Engravers: Edward Keatinge, Robert Ball Hughes

Reverse

Five '5's with a V at center

Comments

Notes from 1862 read "Six months after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States & the United States... "
This note was overprinted every month from April 1863 to February 1864.

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Date	VF		Frequency
Undetermined
1862-Dec-02	$ 72	1st Series: No date stamp. Printed by J. T. Paterson & Co.	41%
1863-Apr-06		2nd Series: Red date stamp. Lithographed by Evans & Cogswell	12%
1863-Apr-06		2nd Series: Red date stamp. Printed by J.T. Paterson & Co.	24%
1863-Apr-06	$ 66	2nd Series: Red date stamp. Printed by Keating & Ball (Columbia, S.C.)	32%
1863-Apr-06		No Series: Red date stamp. Lithographed by Evans & Cogswell	18%

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