5 Dollars, Confederate States of America, 1861
date: label: Date made
content: September 2, 1861
name: label: maker
content: Confederate States of America
notes: label: Description
content: Postage stamps were a natural choice for reinforcing the money. They were small, you could place them wherever you wanted, and they came with their own glue. Best of all, President Davis had declared United States stamps invalid for postage in the summer of 1861. One imagines them languishing in drawers across the Confederacy until a monetary crisis called them back into use - if in an unusual way. The two three-cent stamps holding this note together date from the late 1850s.
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: 1998.0063.0157
label: accession number
content: 1998.0063
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0063.0157
label: serial number
content: 128907
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Currency, Confederate
label: Object Name
content: note
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.5 cm x 17 cm; 2 15/16 in x 6 11/16 in