Confederate Currency- Five Dollars, B.Duncan

Printer Blanton Duncan American
1861
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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