Plate wrapper, June 20, 1862
date: label: date made
content: 1862-06-20
name: label: associated person
content: Butler, Benjamin Franklin
label: associated person
content: Chase, Salmon Portland
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: On June 22, 1862, U.S. Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase received this package that came from Union-occupied New Orleans. General Benjamin Butlerr’s wax seals covered the front ensuring that the valuable contents would remain undisturbed. The package contained four engraved steel plates used to print Confederate notes, the South’s financial lifeblood. The loss of those plates, seized after New Orleans fell in late April 1862, was a blow to Confederate sovereignty and solvency. Butler had quickly sent them to Washington, D.C. as trophies.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Civil War
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Treasury Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.35531
label: catalog number
content: NU35531
label: accession number
content: 91728
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wrapper
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wax (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/16 in x 15 in; 23.368 cm x 38.1 cm