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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse description | At left, an engraved portrait vignette of Christopher G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederacy. The central vignette presents a sailor resting against a cotton bale, emblematic of the Confederate agricultural and maritime economy. At right, an allegorical group comprises a standing figure of Justice alongside a seated Ceres, goddess of agriculture, the whole composition executed in intaglio with letterpress denomination and issuer inscriptions. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, left intentionally blank. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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