Paper Money | Replica Texas "Redback" $5

It was at one time a genuine issue (1839-41).

I can't tell if the one you show is genuine or a facsimile/reproduction.

Prices from the Krause catalog (P#25)are:
Good $65.00 Fine $150 XF $275

At one time they had packages of paper play money That had all kinds of historic money it was on fake parchment tye/look paper which was sort of stiff. It had notes from colonial times to the civil war. This was in the late fifties and early sixties.

There are websites you can go to where you can look up the serial numbers of old banknotes and see if they are a previously recorded facsimilie or fantasy. The Crutchfields Currency site is one of the oldest and best, when it comes to Confederate and Texas notes.

Your note is a Texas $5 numbered "1349". Scroll down and you'll see it listed there, noting that yes, it usually does come with a blank back. This series of notes has red-brown printing on the back; these Texas notes are known as "redbacks", as opposed to Union "greenbacks" and Confederate "bluebacks".

Genuine redbacks are also almost always found with cut-cancellations, as most of the surviving examples were found in this condition in a bank vault in New York many decades after Texas joined the Union. The one thai-vic posted has a cut-cancellation clearly visible, the white slash below the A. Here's mine, complete with several cut-cancellations, most visibly seen on the front running through LIC and the A of TEXAS:



Sorry to be the bearers of disappointing news for your friend.