Confederate Currency–Twenty Dollars, B. Duncan

1861

Not on view

Numerous printers and engravers were engaged to satisfy the demand for paper money in the Confederacy. One printer was Blanton Duncan. At the bottom left of this twenty-dollar bill denomination of is the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens. The allegorical figure, Industry, is seated between a beehive and Cupid at the center of the bill.

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Title: Confederate Currency–Twenty Dollars, B. Duncan
Printer: Blanton Duncan (American, Louisville, Kentucky 1811–1902)
Date: 1861
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 in. × 6 3/4 in. (7.6 × 17.1 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: Gift of Secretary of the Treasury, Franklin MacVeagh, 1913
Object Number: 13.3.9
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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