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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA FIVE FIVE DOLLARS |
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| Reverse lettering | CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA V |
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J. Manouvrier was a New Orleans commercial printer with no prior experience producing currency — an unusual choice, even by the improvised standards of early Confederate procurement. The Confederacy's first months of note issuance were marked by a scramble among Southern printers willing to take on government work, and Manouvrier was among the handful contracted before Richmond established more centralized printing arrangements.
Cotton paper was a deliberate regional choice, playing on Confederate ideology about Southern agricultural self-sufficiency, though the practical supply chain for quality currency paper proved far less reliable than the rhetoric suggested.