T-70 Confederate Money Two Dollars Judah P. Benjamin PCGS 63

Your Price: $185.00

Item Number: Type 70 two dollars Var PCGS 63

Manufacturer: CSA - Confederacy Capital - Montgomery AL, Richmond VA

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Type 70 obsolete civil war currency 2.00 Benjamin graded by PCGS at Choice New 63 PPQ

Type 70 Confederate Money 2 dollars

A Judah P. Benjamin 2.00 bill type 70 Confederate money which has been professionally graded by PCGS at Choice New 63 and also with premium paper quality. This is the last of the Judah P. Benjamin two dollar notes that the Confederacy issued during the Civil War. Somehow the Confederate States of America was still able to obtain better quality bank note paper on which to print these type 70 notes. The coloring of these bills range from buff, orange, pink and red, they were not meant to be different color variations, these were caused by different qualities of inks and the inking of the overprint stone. I have more than one of these Type 70 Judah P. Benjamin confederate money notes available, so the one you recieve might not be the one that is in the picture, but all are graded the same PCGS Choice New 63 with the Premium Paper Quality designation. In addition a back of one of these obsolete civil war currency bills can be viewed in the photograph gallery.

Judah P. Benjamin 2.00 CSA currency grading PCGS 63 Premium Paper Quality

Judah P. Benjamin was born a British subject in the Danish West Indies to Sephardic Jewish parents on August 6, 1811. He was known as the Brains of the Confederacy. Benjamin spent most of his childhood years in North and South Carolina. In 1832 he started his law practice in New Orleans, the following year he married Natalie St. Martin, of a prominent New Orleans creole family. Benjamin became a slave owner and established a sugar plantation in Belle Chasse Louisiana and both his plantation and legal practice prospered. In 1850 Benjamin sold his sugar plantation and its 150 slaves, he never again owned slaves. Jefferson Davis appointed Benjamin to be the first Attorney of the Confederacy on February 25, 1861. In November of the same year, he became the secretary of war. As a reward for his loyalty, Davis appointed him Secretary of State in March of 1862. What Judah P. Benjamin wanted most during his tenure as Secretary of State was to draw Great Britain into the civil war on the side of the confederacy. Some think that he almost succeeded in this endeavour, but in the end, England decided against helping the South because of the issue of slavery. Benjamin also wanted to arm the slaves to help fight for the confederacy in the later stages of the war, when he saw how badly things were going military, but the southern traditionalists would have no part of this plan. Robert E. Lee also supported this plan, finally it was passed in the spring of 1865, by which time it was to late.
When the Civil War ended, Judah P. Benjamin fled to England, because he was accused of being the mastermind of the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Fearing that he could never recieve a fair trial, he went into permanent exile in Great Britain. However, he prospered in England as well as he had prospered in the American South. In June 1866 he was called to the bar in England, in 1868 he published his Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property, which became a classic in its field. The book is still being printed under the title Benjamin's Sale of Goods. In 1872 he became Queen's Counsel. Judah P. Benjamin died in Paris on May 6, 1884 and was buried at Pere Lachaise cemetary under the name of Phillippe Benjamin.

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