Confederate dollar
Confederate dollar: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction uncertain; ended 1865
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Where this money came from
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No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
A Montgomery land sale dated 28 November 1864 specified 45, 000 Confederate dollars, including a deferred 10, 000-dollar obligation; the Court distinguished this unit from US dollars in both kind and value. [1]
Confederate notes became worthless in 1865. The Court permitted this private debt's historical-value recovery in US money, not note redemption. [2]
Confederate currency became worthless in 1865; no general successor conversion is established. Judicial recovery of the historical value of a private debt is not currency redemption. [3]
Sources and evidence
- US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) C1408 ↗
- US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) C1409 ↗
- US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868) C1436 ↗
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“Confederate dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-CONFEDERATE-DOLLAR.html