Paper money: 100 dollar

Museum number:
2-45255
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020045255
Accession number:
Acc.2718
Description:
(Confederate States currency); 100, Negroes hoeing cotton, J.C. Calhoun left, Columbia right, “Hundred” overprint in orange-red, Bears “Interest at Two Cents per day”, serial letter Y, serial # 12985, reverse has no engravings but has 3 interest posting stamps “Interest paid to 1st of January 1863 at Richmond,” same to 1864 at Charleston, last stamp ineligible
Donor:
Franklin MacVeagh
Collection place:
Richmond, Virginia
Verbatim coll. place:
Confederate States of America
Production place:
Richmond, Virginia
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Collector:
Union Army
Collection date:
1865
Materials:
Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Confederate States dollar (system of money), Dollars (paper money), and Paper money
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
April 17, 1862
Accession date:
1912
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Paper money: 100 dollar, accession number 2-45255, described as (Confederate States currency); 100, Negroes hoeing cotton, J.C. Calhoun left, Columbia right, “Hundred” overprint in orange-red, Bears “Interest at Two Cents per day”, serial letter Y, serial # 12985, reverse has no engravings but has 3 interest posting stamps “Interest paid to 1st of January 1863 at Richmond,” same to 1864 at Charleston, last stamp ineligibleHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Paper money: 100 dollar, accession number 2-45255, described as (Confederate States currency); 100, Negroes hoeing cotton, J.C. Calhoun left, Columbia right, “Hundred” overprint in orange-red, Bears “Interest at Two Cents per day”, serial letter Y, serial # 12985, reverse has no engravings but has 3 interest posting stamps “Interest paid to 1st of January 1863 at Richmond,” same to 1864 at Charleston, last stamp ineligible
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Paper money: 100 dollar, accession number 2-45255, described as (Confederate States currency); 100, Negroes hoeing cotton, J.C. Calhoun left, Columbia right, “Hundred” overprint in orange-red, Bears “Interest at Two Cents per day”, serial letter Y, serial # 12985, reverse has no engravings but has 3 interest posting stamps “Interest paid to 1st of January 1863 at Richmond,” same to 1864 at Charleston, last stamp ineligible

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