1862 0 VIRGINIA CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR TREASURY NOTE - GOVERNOR LETCHER -CRISP

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Here is a crispy and attractive and
genuine
0 STATE OF VIRGINIA CIVIL WAR TREASURY NOTE , dated at Richmond, October 15, 1862.
Features portrait of
Civil War Governor John Letcher
at center; portrait of George Washington at left; Indian maiden with large bow in oval at right.
Beautiful orange protectors with "C" either side of portrait.
Back is blank as issued. Printed by Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, SC. The 0 was the highest denomination issued!
Serial #2260.
Hand signed by Virginia officals J.M. Bennett, Auditor of Public Accounts, and G.S. Calvert, Treasurer.
John Letcher
(
March 29, 1813 – January 26, 1884)
was an American
lawyer
,
journalist
, and
politician
. He served as a Representative in the
United States Congress
, was the
34th
Governor
of
Virginia
during the
American Civil War
, and later served in the
Virginia General Assembly
. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of
Virginia Military Institute
. John Letcher was elected as Governor of Virginia in 1859, defeating Whi
g
candidate
William L. Goggin
, and served from 1860–1864. Letcher was prominent in the organization of the
peace convention
that met in
Washington, D.C.
, February 8, 1861, in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending
American Civil War
. He discouraged secession, but was active in sustaining the ordinance passed by Virginia on April 17, 1861. Colonel
John Brown Baldwin
defeated Letcher in May 1863 for a seat in the
Second Confederate Congress
. In 1864, his home in Lexington was burned by
Union
troops during General
David Hunter
's raid.
Virginia, like most Confederate states, issued its own Treasury notes to circulate in the state along side Confederate government notes. Virginia notes met wide acceptance, as Virginia was one of the more solvent Confederate states. The 0 was the highest denomination Virginia Treasury note issued during the Civil War.
A
delightful Crispy note with bold color and detail
. Two tiny pinholes at right as typical. A beautiful example of Virginia Currency!
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