Confederate dollar
- Dates in use
- Introduction uncertain; ended 1865
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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Confederate dollar
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No successor is established here.
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Confederate dollar
US dollar
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
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The story
A Montgomery land sale dated November 28, 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)
- US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868)
- US Supreme Court · Thorington v. Smith, 75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 1 (1868)
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“Confederate dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-CONFEDERATE-DOLLAR.html