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Archer & Halpin (fl. 1864) [Confederate States of America fifty cents paper currency note]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03501.02 Author/Creator: Archer & Halpin (fl. 1864) Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Ephemera Date: 17 February 1864 Pagination: 1 p. ; 6 x 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
Tyler, Robert, 1816-1877
Elmore, Edward Carrington, fl. 1861-1865

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