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National Bank Notes were issued by banks chartered or authorized to do so by the Federal Government. The charter expired after 20 years, but could be renewed. They were of uniform appearance except for the name of the bank and were issued as three series or charter periods: 1869–1882, 1882–1902, and 1902–1922.
In October 1863, Confederate States Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas said that a Confederate soldier received $11 per month in pay, which was worth the same as $1 had been worth at the beginning of the war. [4] In September 1864, one Confederate dollar was worth the same as three cents of United States currency. [5]
The earliest (1861) federal banknotes included high-denomination notes such as three-year interest-bearing notes of $500, $1,000, and $5,000, authorized by Congress on July 17, 1861. [8] In total, 11 different types of U.S. currency were issued in high-denomination notes across nearly 20 different series dates.
The $5 bill as we know it, with Abraham Lincoln on the front, got its start in 1914. But U.S. banknotes worth five dollars had been around long before that, beginning with $5 "demand notes" first...
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A one-dollar bill, the most common Federal Reserve Note . Federal Reserve Notes are the currently issued banknotes of the United States dollar. [1] The United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces the notes under the authority of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 [2] and issues them to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. [2]
The ease with which paper money can be created, ... (by 1922 1 gold Austro-Hungarian krone of 1914 was worth 14,400 paper Kronen), ...
Taylor met with Lincoln in January 1862 and suggested issuing unbacked paper money. [7] On February 25, 1862, Congress passed the first Legal Tender Act , which authorized the issuance of $150 million (~$3.57 billion in 2023) in United States Notes .