Keywords
American Civil War
Confederate States of America
U.S. banknotes and coins
Greek and Roman coins
virtues
Confederate States of America
U.S. banknotes and coins
Greek and Roman coins
virtues
How to Cite
Győri, Victoria. 2019. “Greco-Roman Precedents on Confederate Currency”. In Gremium. Studies in History, Culture and Politics, no. 13 (December). https://doi.org/10.34768/ig.vi13.319.
Abstract
This paper examines why and how, during the period of the American Civil War, the Southern Confederacy modelled itself on the ideals of the Greco-Roman world. One of the best ways to exemplify the link between the Old South and the classical antiquity is to analyze the banknotes and coins of the Treasury of the Confederate States of America. Confederate currency demonstrates the significant impact Greece and Rome had on the values, ideals, and society that the Old South founded itself on.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_dollar - a complete catalogue of all the Confederate coins and banknotes from 1861 to 1865
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/debo.html - DeBow’s Review
d’Hemecourt 1996: “Beyond Face Value: Slavery Iconography in Confederate Currency” http://exhibitions.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/?page_id=707
RIC 12 - Sutherland, C.H.V. (1984) Roman Imperial Coinage. Vol. I: From 31 BC to AD 69, London.
RPC 1 - Burnett, A., Amandry, M., and Ripollès, P. (1992) Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. 1, From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69), London.
RRC – Crawford, M. (1974) Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge.
Barrett, A. (2002) Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome, Yale University Press.
Bernath, M.T. (2010) Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Berrigan, J.R. (1968) ‘The Impact of the Classics on the South’, Classical Journal 64: 18-20.
Cash, W.J. (1941) The Mind of the South, New York.
Charlesworth, M.P. (1936) ‘Providentia and Aeternitas’, HTR 29: 107-132.
Doty, R.G. (2008) America’s Money – America’s Story: A Chronicle of American Numismatic History, Atlanta.
--(2013) Pictures from a Distant Country: Seeing America through Old Paper Money, Atlanta.
Grant, M. (1950) Aspects of the Principate of Tiberius: Historical Comments on the Colonial Coinage Issued Outside Spain, American Numismatic Society, New York.
Hall, J. (2008) Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, Colorado.
Mattingly, H. (1937) ‘The Roman Virtues”, HTR 30: 103-117.
Miles, E. (1971) ‘The Old South and the Classical World’, The North Carolina Historical Review 48: 258-275.
Nutton, V. (1978) ‘The benefical ideology’ in Garnsey, P.D.A. and Whittaker, C.R. (eds.) Imperialism in the Ancient World: the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, Cambridge, 109-121.
Richard, C. J. (2009) The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States, Harvard University Press.
Weinstock, S. (1971) Divus Julius, Oxford.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/debo.html - DeBow’s Review
d’Hemecourt 1996: “Beyond Face Value: Slavery Iconography in Confederate Currency” http://exhibitions.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/?page_id=707
RIC 12 - Sutherland, C.H.V. (1984) Roman Imperial Coinage. Vol. I: From 31 BC to AD 69, London.
RPC 1 - Burnett, A., Amandry, M., and Ripollès, P. (1992) Roman Provincial Coinage. Vol. 1, From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69), London.
RRC – Crawford, M. (1974) Roman Republican Coinage, Cambridge.
Barrett, A. (2002) Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome, Yale University Press.
Bernath, M.T. (2010) Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Berrigan, J.R. (1968) ‘The Impact of the Classics on the South’, Classical Journal 64: 18-20.
Cash, W.J. (1941) The Mind of the South, New York.
Charlesworth, M.P. (1936) ‘Providentia and Aeternitas’, HTR 29: 107-132.
Doty, R.G. (2008) America’s Money – America’s Story: A Chronicle of American Numismatic History, Atlanta.
--(2013) Pictures from a Distant Country: Seeing America through Old Paper Money, Atlanta.
Grant, M. (1950) Aspects of the Principate of Tiberius: Historical Comments on the Colonial Coinage Issued Outside Spain, American Numismatic Society, New York.
Hall, J. (2008) Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, Colorado.
Mattingly, H. (1937) ‘The Roman Virtues”, HTR 30: 103-117.
Miles, E. (1971) ‘The Old South and the Classical World’, The North Carolina Historical Review 48: 258-275.
Nutton, V. (1978) ‘The benefical ideology’ in Garnsey, P.D.A. and Whittaker, C.R. (eds.) Imperialism in the Ancient World: the Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History, Cambridge, 109-121.
Richard, C. J. (2009) The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States, Harvard University Press.
Weinstock, S. (1971) Divus Julius, Oxford.