More Civil War Items of Interest




United States Note from 1862 with a picture of Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon Chase.
As Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln, Chase oversaw the issue of greenbacks, with $1 Notes bearing his picture. In 1864 Lincoln appointed Chase as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In Hepburn v. Griswold (Feb. 7, 1870), the Court ruled by a four-to-three majority that Congress lacked the power to make the notes legal tender. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who as Secretary of the Treasury had been involved in enacting the Legal Tender Act in 1861, wrote the majority opinion, declaring that the Congressional authorization of greenbacks as legal tender violated Fifth Amendment guarantees against deprivation of property without due process of law.



$5 Demand Note from 1862 with the statue of "Freedom" and a picture of Alexander Hamilton



50 Cent Confederate Fractional Currency with the bust of CSA President Jefferson Davis



$10 Confederate States of America Note from 1864



5 Cent Confederate Stamp featuring the portrait of CSA President Jefferson Davis, issued in 1862



10 Cent Confederate Stamp featuring the bust of CSA President Jefferson Davis, issued in 1863



$5 Confederate note from 1864 also known as the "Lincoln assassination note" because one of these notes were found in Lincoln's wallet immediately after his assassination on April 14, 1865



Unused Civil War Army Allotment check featuring a picture of Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton



1861 U.S.$21/2 Gold Coin



1862 U.S. $1 Gold Coin



1863 U.S. Indian Head Cent



1861 U.S. Half Dollar



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