Confederate Currency- Twenty Dollars, Hoyer & Ludwig

1861

Not on view

Numerous printers and engravers were engaged to satisfy the demand for paper money in the Confederacy. On this denomination of a twenty dollar bill there is a sailor leaning on a capstan at the lower left and a sailing ship at the upper center.

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Title: Confederate Currency- Twenty Dollars, Hoyer & Ludwig
Printer: Hoyer & Ludwig
Date: 1861
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 7 3/8 in. (7.9 × 18.7 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: Gift of Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, 1913
Object Number: 13.3.11
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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