5 Dollars, Confederate States of America, 1863
date: label: Date made
content: 1863
name: label: engraver
content: Keatinge & Ball
notes: label: Description
content: Most Confederate notes bore a single issue date. Those created in 1863 bore two-the official date of the issue, April 6, 1863, and the actual month when the notes were placed in circulation, ranging from April 1863 to February 1864. The official date was part of the basic design. The actual date was applied in red, ordinarily towards the right-hand margin. The greater precision was probably intended to create a greater accountability as to how much currency was being issued, and when.
label: Description
content: But the paper used to create new currency wasn't any better than that used to create the old. And a society that roughly handled its paper money but had no more durable alternatives was likely to continue having problems holding things together. An amazing range of discarded paper objects was put into service.
label: Description
content: Glue was slapped onto everything from old telegrams to a playbill for a performance of the Hunchback of Notre Dame at some forgotten theater. Out-of-date letters were always popular, particularly if they had writing on both sides of the sheet. And so William Perryman's letter home was recycled by a friend, or a relative, to keep this particular Confederate five in circulation a few turns longer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Virginia, Richmond
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content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins
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content: Numismatics
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
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content: Legendary Coins
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: 1998.0063.0045
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0063.0045
label: accession number
content: 1998.0063
label: serial number
content: 36663
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Paper Money
label: Object Name
content: note
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 78 mm x 175 mm; 3 1/16 in x 6 7/8 in