page_title: Demand Note
section_title: Common varieties among denominations
hierarchical_section_title: Demand Note / Design / Common varieties among denominations
caption_attribution_description: Variations of "For the" on Demand Notes The top is of the earlier issued Demand Notes where "for the" was hand written to indicate that the person was signing in place of a treasury official. The bottom is of the later issued type where "For the" was engraved into printing plates.
context_page_description: A Demand Note is a type of United States paper money that was issued between August 1861 and April 1862 during the American Civil War in denominations of 5, 10, and 20 US$. Demand Notes were the first issue of paper money by the United States that achieved wide circulation and they are still in circulation today, though they are now extremely rare. The U.S. government placed the Demand Notes into circulation by using them to pay expenses incurred during the Civil War including the salaries of its workers and military personnel.
  Because of the distinctive green ink on their reverse, and because state-chartered bank and Confederate notes of the day typically had blank reverse, the Demand Notes were nicknamed "greenbacks", a name later inherited by United States Notes and Federal Reserve Notes. The obverse of the Demand Notes contained familiar elements such as the images of a bald eagle, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Hamilton, though the portraits used on Demand Notes are different from the ones seen on U.S. currency today.
context_section_description: The various signatures of authorized treasury personnel who signed for L. E. Chittenden and F. E. Spinner
  For the was used to indicate that a person was authorized to sign in place of treasury officials and is either hand written or engraved with the following varieties:
  Handwritten as either "for the", "For the", or "For The" above the line for the signature
  Engraved as either "For the" or "for the" next to "Register of the Treasury" and "Treasurer of the United States"
  Either SERIES followed by a number and period or no series indication at all. The first 100,000 notes printed for a given denomination and payment location bore no series identification; for each 100,000 subsequent notes the serial number reset to 1 and the series number advanced by 1.
caption: Variations of "For the" on a $10 Demand Note
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