This picture shows a third-issue five-cent fractional currency note, issued by the United States Department of the Treasury between 5 December 1864 and 16 August 1869, featuring a portrait of Spencer M. Clark, then supervisor of the Currency Bureau, on the obverse. This banknote is in the National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Banknote design credit: United States Department of the Treasury; photographed by the National Numismatic Collection![]() | This picture of the day has been featured on Portal:United States. |
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