Block of ten dollar bills, CSA, 1863
date: label: Date made
content: April 6, 1863
name: label: maker
content: Confederate States of America
notes: label: Description
content: The Richmond Hoard is shedding new light on Southern wartime monetary practices. One of the most surprising finds is a series of notes of the same denomination, in blocks, banded together with paper, turned in and canceled as units. The conclusion is obvious: the ravages of inflation might mean that those notes were worth little as individual pieces, but would still have considerable purchasing power if traded in a group. And so someone carefully put a hundred tens in a tidy pile, put a band around them with their total value - and then used the brick to purchase something important.
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (through John W. Carlin)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0063.0160
label: accession number
content: 1998.0063
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0063.0160
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Currency packet, Confederate
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 19 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 9/16 in