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Printer Blanton Duncan American
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Numerous printers and engravers were engaged to satisfy the demand for paper money in the Confederacy. There is a portrait of C.G. Memminger at the lower left, a sailor reclining by cotton bales at the upper center, and Justice standing with a kneeling Ceres at the right.
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Title: Confederate Currency- Five Dollars, B.Duncan
Printer:
Blanton Duncan (American, Louisville, Kentucky 1811–1902)
Date: 1861
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 in. × 6 7/8 in. (7.6 × 17.5 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: Gift of Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, 1913
Object Number: 13.3.2
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