Confederate Order Making Foreign Gold Coins Legal Tender

Confederate States of America, Treasury Department. TREASURY CIRCULAR, NO. 12. Richmond, September 21, 1861. 8vo, self-covered and stitched, as issued. 16 pages. Ex War Department Library, with its stamp on the first page. Near fine. A very scarce Confederate imprint with numismatic content. This circular contains several acts of the Congress of the Confederate States of America relevant to the CSA Treasury Department, among them one that fixes the legal tender status of English, French and Spanish/Mexican gold coins, and one that authorizes the president and secretary of the treasury of the Confederate States of America to borrow money on credit for the support of the CSA government. Confederate imprints of any sort are scarce and in demand. As almost nothing of direct numismatic relevance was published in the CSA, these government publications are all the more important. A significant primary document concerning the financial state of the Confederacy in the first year of the Civil War. Parrish and Willingham 2154-12. Ex David F. Fanning Numismatic Literature, 2009.