Documented obligations, prices or public accounting establish a scoped currency identity independently of surviving descendants.
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor. Dated observations: 1861–1865; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
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.
Court explicitly distinguishes contract dollars in kind and value from US dollars. Admission rests on independently denominated land-price and debt obligations, not merely depreciated notes or issuer risk.
Court explicitly distinguishes contract dollars in kind and value from US dollars. Admission rests on independently denominated land-price and debt obligations, not merely depreciated notes or issuer risk.
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1864supported
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.
C1408
1865supported
Confederate notes became worthless in 1865. The Court permitted this private debt's historical-value recovery in US money, not note redemption.
C1409
Evidence & research notes 5 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C1408
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.
pp. 1–3 and 12–14; November 28, 1864 note; distinction between Confederate and lawful US dollars
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1436
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.
pp. 1–3 and 12–14; November 28, 1864 note; distinction between Confederate and lawful US dollars
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1554
Court explicitly distinguishes contract dollars in kind and value from US dollars. Admission rests on independently denominated land-price and debt obligations, not merely depreciated notes or issuer risk.
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Inference C1676
Confederate public obligations initially continued the U.S.dollar framework:1861statutes retained existing salary, fee and official-bond amounts. By1864, local contracts used a distinct Confederate dollar denomination recognized in Thorington. Taken together this supports a regional U.S.dollar branch, without identifying a single universal separation day.
Confederate Provisional Congress; James M. Matthews, editor · Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government, first session (1861), published 1864Citation S791 · Open source ↗