Abstract
A one dollar bank note issued by the Confederate States of America, December 2, 1862. The note features a portrait of Clement Claiborne Clay, a spy for the Confederate War Department whose work to coordinate the activities of Confederate sympathizers brought him to the Great Lakes area, including Niagara. The bill is printed in black ink on pink paper and is inscribed “Fundable in stocks or bonds of the Confederate States. Six months after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States & the United States of America. Confederate States of America will pay to the bearer on demand one dollar receivable in payments of all dues except export duties”. The note is engraved by Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C.Collections
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