Save Your Confederate Bonds!

The South shall rise again ... but maybe not right away. That hasn't kept me from acquiring a few CSA bonds.

Since I collect primarily engraved material there aren't a lot of these bonds that interest me. The rebels were a frugal lot and it was cheaper to print securities using lithography, so the vast majority of Confederate bonds and currency were not engraved. But a couple banknote companies below the Mason-Dixon Line did have the ability to do intaglio printing, including Archer & Daly of Richmond.

A&D printed a series of three bonds in 1863 on pinkish paper. Years ago I purchased the $100 and $500 denominations and recently I finally picked up the $1000 to complete the set.

The last interest payment made on all of these was in January 1865.