1861 Confederate States of America Half Dime DeWitt-C 1861-2 R.8 A United South

Description

It is believed that only 8 to 12 examples exist.
They were made by A.O.H.P. Sehorn of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Traditionally called a half dime, the size is about that of a contemporary three cent silver piece. A note in the April 1878 issue of the
Coin Collector's Journal
describes this piece and notes that a P. Sid Jones of the Millburn Wagon Company received it on October 9, 1862.
The obverse has a flag with 14 stars, the legend A UNITED SOUTH above, and the date, 1861, below. The reverse depicts a cotton plant inside a ring of 15 stars. A coin of the same description was in the possession of Esquire W.F. Meacham in 1868, according to an article that appeared in
The Tennessean
(Nashville) of March 24, 1868, with identification of Sehorn as the maker in a further article four days later. While they are unofficial coins of the Confederacy, these pieces are clearly contemporary to the Civil War rather than fantasy pieces of a later date. A comment in DeWitt-Sullivan suggests the early Civil War era production: "Undoubtedly it was struck in the early days of the Confederacy when its leaders hoped to bring no less than fifteen states into the Confederacy under a cotton economy."
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