Confederate States Bond Coupon Issued 1861

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Confederate States Bond Coupon Issued 1861

Designated Criswell number 95A and Ball number 106. The one thousand dollar bond serial number is 1584 authorized  by the Act of 19 August, 1861 and was issued on 17 February 1863 A five year payoff period, 1868, meant there would be ten of these coupons attached and separated when cashed in.

Lithographed by B. Duncan of Columbia, South Carolina. These bonds were to help finance the South’s effort in the Civil War.