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Archer & Halpin (Richmond, VA) [Confederate States of America fifty cents paper currency note]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03501.02 Author/Creator: Archer & Halpin (Richmond, VA) Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Ephemera Date: February 17, 1864 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 6 cm, Width: 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Signed in facsimile by Robert Tyler, as register and E.C. Elmore as the Treasurer of the Confederate States of America. No. 44502, engraved by Archer & Halpin, Richmond, Virginia.

Archer, John Wykeham, 1808-1864
Halpin, Frederick W., 1805-1880
Archer & Halpin (Richmond, VA)
Tyler, Robert, 1816-1877
Elmore, Edward Carrington, fl. 1861-1865

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