Fifty cent Confederate bank note   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Confederate currency produced in Savannah, Georgia on January 1, 1862 in the amount of fifty cents. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_6
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Savannah (Georgia)