Confederate Currency- Five Dollars, 1863
This denomination of a ten dollar bill has a portrait of Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, C.G. Memminger at the lower right. There is also a vignette at the center of the bill of the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.
Artwork Details
- Title: Confederate Currency- Five Dollars, 1863
- Engraver: Keatinge & Ball
- Printer: Evans & Cogswell
- Date: 1863
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 3 × 7 in. (7.6 × 17.8 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
- Credit Line: Gift of Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, 1913
- Object Number: 13.3.18
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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