5 Dollars, Confederate States of America, 1863
date: label: Date made
content: April 6, 1863
name: label: maker
content: Confederate States of America
notes: label: Description
content: The quality of paper employed for printing Confederate currency varied widely. But even paper of the highest quality wore out, especially given the fact that currency of one type or another was the only alternative to straight barter in the wartime South. When paper deteriorated, efforts were made to patch it up. Newsprint and glue were employed on this piece. The newspaper dates from the early spring of 1862. Some thrifty soul held onto it over a year and a half for just this purpose.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Virginia, Richmond
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1998.0063.0155
label: accession number
content: 1998.0063
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0063.0155
label: serial number
content: 19139
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Currency, Confederate
label: Object Name
content: note
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.5 cm x 18 cm; 2 15/16 in x 7 1/16 in