Paper money: 100 dollars

Museum number:
2-71600
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071600
Alternate number:
Q-22 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.4482
Description:
Currency, paper, $100, Confederate States of America, picture of train, telegraph lines, and boat; handprinted serial # 39339; dated August 28th 1862; length 17.8 cm; width 8.1 cm.
Donor:
Burton Benedict and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Richmond, Virginia
Verbatim coll. place:
United States Historic
Production place:
Richmond, Virginia
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Collector:
Burton Benedict
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:
August 28, 1862
Context of use:
This note promises to pay bearer interest at two cents per day. The reverse bears stamps showing interest paid at Charleston on January 1, 1863, 1864, 1865.
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Paper money: 100 dollars, accession number 2-71600, described as Currency, paper, $100, Confederate States of America, picture of train, telegraph lines, and boat; handprinted serial # 39339; dated August 28th 1862; length 17.8 cm; width 8.1 cm.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Paper money: 100 dollars, accession number 2-71600, described as Currency, paper, $100, Confederate States of America, picture of train, telegraph lines, and boat; handprinted serial # 39339; dated August 28th 1862; length 17.8 cm; width 8.1 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Paper money: 100 dollars, accession number 2-71600, described as Currency, paper, $100, Confederate States of America, picture of train, telegraph lines, and boat; handprinted serial # 39339; dated August 28th 1862; length 17.8 cm; width 8.1 cm.

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