April 26, 2024
$2 1863 Confederate Richmond Genuine T-61 CSA War Bill Benjamin Old Rebel Money
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This lot is a $2 Confederate States of America note. It is dated April 6th, 1863 and was issued in Richmond, VA. TWO appears in large letters on the left side. The bill states "Six months after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America .... " A picture of Judah Benjamin is on the right. The back is blank. Guaranteed genuine. Letter: F Condition: heavily used, with small holes, internal separations and lost corner Judah Philip Benjamin was born a British subject in Saint Thomas , during the British occupation of the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands ), to Phillip Benjamin, an English Jew, and his wife, Rebecca Mendes, a Portuguese Jew . He emigrated with his parents to the U.S. several years later and grew up in North and South Carolina . In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform congregation in the United States, the "Reformed Society of Israelites for Promoting True Principles of Judaism According to Its Purity and Spirit" in Charleston . He attended Fayetteville Academy in North Carolina , and at the age of fourteen he entered Yale Law School , though he left without a degree. In 1832 he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana , where he continued his study of law, was admitted into the bar that same year, and entered private practice as a commercial
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