National Archives and Records Administration (through John W. The note was called in and canceled later in the war, which explains the hole. This is a banknote for 25 cents issued in Tallahassee on Feby 2nd 1863. Vignettes of slaves and overseer as well as a mining scene. Sharp looking example of this Far Western North Carolina Bank Note. Hunter, sometime senator and secretary of state. 1860 Miners and Planters Bank (Murphy) 10.00 Note. Someone added a straight pin, taking no chances. The old stamp got a new use, and the bill it strengthened a new lease on life. One can conjecture that it was either damaged and rendered unfit for postage or had become virtually worthless as inflation worsened later in the war. Not introduced until 1863, the notes were issued a. That's what the blue Federal stamp is doing on the back of this note. The smallest denomination offered in the Confederate States dollar banknote series was the 50-cent note. They still came in handy for reinforcing money. That put the provisionals out of business, and it also meant that Yankee postage stamps (which had sometimes continued in use in the absence of anything else) could be declared null and void for postage. But now the government at Richmond was able to issue official Confederate stamps. Prior to that time, "provisional" postal issues had been produced by a range of cities and towns. It was issued on Januand has the printed signature of Governor Gill Shorter and was engraved by J.T. On the face of the bill is The State of Alabama will pay to bearer in Confederate States Treasury Notes when presented at State Treasury in sums twenty dollars and upwards. The Confederacy got around part of the problem during the first summer of the war. In an oval in the center is a vignette of a tree with the map of Alabama. Stamps were meant to move the mails and therefore had a small but definite value as useful objects. Object Details engraver Keatinge & Ball Description Postage stamps must have seemed heaven-sent to the would-be restorer of Confederate money-they came with their own glue! But there was a problem. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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