Confederate 100 Dollars
Confederate States of America.
22 December 1862
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- This banknote was scanned by User:Swtpc6800 (Michael Holley) on an Epson Perfection 1240U at 600 dpi and stored as TIFF. The image was cropped in Adobe Photo Elements 5.0 and saved as a 600 dpi Maximum Quality JPG
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862. Issued during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Slave hoeing cotton in the center with John C. Calhoun on the left and Columbia on the right. Over 670,000 of these notes were issued from August, 1862 to January, 1863. [1]
The bill is 7.375 by 3.125 inches (187 mm by 79 mm) and is thinner than a modern US dollar.
Annotations on the banknote.
Serial number 131615 Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C. (lower left) Receivable in Payment of All Dues Except Export Duties. (lower right) Issued by Maj. James Glover, q.m. 26th January 1863 (hand written on back) Interest Paid to 1st January 1864 at Richmond. (stamped on back) The ink from this stamp can be seen on the front right side.
