10 Dollars, Confederate States of America, 1863
date: label: Date made
content: 1863
name: label: engraver
content: Keatinge & Ball
notes: label: Description
content: Postage stamps must have seemed heaven-sent to the would-be restorer of Confederate money-they came with their own glue! But there was a problem. Stamps were meant to move the mails and therefore had a small but definite value as useful objects.
label: Description
content: The Confederacy got around part of the problem during the first summer of the war. Prior to that time, "provisional" postal issues had been produced by a range of cities and towns. But now the government at Richmond was able to issue official Confederate stamps. That put the provisionals out of business, and it also meant that Yankee postage stamps (which had sometimes continued in use in the absence of anything else) could be declared null and void for postage.
label: Description
content: They still came in handy for reinforcing money. That's what the blue Federal stamp is doing on the back of this note. The green one is a Confederate issue. One can conjecture that it was either damaged and rendered unfit for postage or had become virtually worthless as inflation worsened later in the war.
label: Description
content: But glue was glue. The old stamp got a new use, and the bill it strengthened a new lease on life. Someone added a straight pin, taking no chances. The gentleman at lower right is R. M. T. Hunter, sometime senator and secretary of state. The note was called in and canceled later in the war, which explains the hole.
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: 1998.0063.0046
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0063.0046
label: accession number
content: 1998.0063
label: serial number
content: 2728
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: Physical Description
content: metal pin (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 mm x 158 mm; 2 15/16 in x 6 1/4 in