Confederate States Treasury Note (Slaves in a Cotton Field, John C. Calhoun and Columbia to left and right)

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Confederate States Treasury Note (Slaves in a Cotton Field, John C. Calhoun and Columbia to left and right)

Confederate States Issue

April 17, 1862 issue, dated September 23, 1862

Object Place: Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America

Medium/Technique Printed on thin paper with black and red ink, signed in brown ink and numbered in red, back counterstamped in black and blue

Credit Line The Sidney A. and Ellen M. Wien Collection—Given in their memory by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse

Accession Number2004.1926

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas

ClassificationsNumismatics – Paper currency

Catalogue Raisonné Friedberg CS-41

ProvenanceCollected by Sidney A. Wien (1902-1962), Atlanta, Georgia, between the mid-1940's and 1962; by descent to his daughter, Claire W. Morse, in 1962; to the MFA in November 2004, gift of Claire W. and Richard P. Morse.