OVERVIEW
Treasury Notes issued by the Confederate Government between during the American Civil War have been researched and collected for over 150 years by many thousands of numismatists and enthusiasts. The Confederate Treasury issued well over $1.5 billion in Treasury notes between 1861 and 1865, represented by 70 different designs and some 85 million individual notes of varying denomination. Some later Confederate Treasury records were lost towards the end of the Civil War as the key cities of Columbia, South Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia, were captured and heavily damaged by Federal forces. However, the Federal Government took steps to ensure that any surviving records from the Confederate States authorities - including those of the Treasury - were secured and transported to Washington D.C. in case they contained information which could be valuable in the prosecution of President Davis and other prominent Confederates .
This website explores the world of Confederate Treasury notes, with sections providing details related to:
- The classification of the seventy recognised Treasury notes
- The Engravers and Printers who manufactured the notes
- The Treasury clerks who signed the notes on behalf of the Office of the Register and the Office of the Treasurer
- The Financial Record of the notes as documented by Mr. Thian in his Register of the Confederate Debt
- The Author's work to create an extensive database of Confederate Treasury notes, and a Digital Register which extends Thian's work
- A selection of reports from the database which collectors can use freely for reference purposes
- A selection of published articles related to Confederate paper money wrtten by the Author
CONTACT
Mark A. Coughlan enjoyed a forty-year career as a technologist in the Financial Services industry, living and working in London, New York, Zurich, and Amsterdam. A member of the SPMC, the ANA, and the IBNS, Mark has been collecting and researching Confederate paper money for more than twenty five years and has received a number of literary awards for his publications in this field.