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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | An intaglio-engraved portrait vignette of Clement Claiborne Clay, rendered in a fine stipple style, is set within an oval wreath at centre, flanked by two circular medallions each bearing the numeral '1' in ornate guilloche surrounds. Broad dark-brown letterpress panels at left and right carry the word 'ONE' in large serif capitals, while a scrollwork banner across the lower centre carries the bold typeset legend 'CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA' above the promise-to-pay text. The note is printed on a salmon-pink tinted paper ground with fine geometric border ornaments running the full perimeter. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of untreated paper with no vignette, lettering, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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By 1864, the Confederacy's currency had collapsed in practical terms — inflation was so severe that a single dollar note was functionally worthless before it left the press. Keatinge & Ball, operating out of Columbia, had taken over much of Confederate printing after the fall of New Orleans disrupted earlier supply chains, working under constant material shortages with degraded ink and increasingly poor-quality paper stock.
When Sherman's troops reached Columbia in February 1865, the printing facilities were destroyed. Notes from this final series survive in relatively large numbers because the Confederacy printed far more than it could ever circulate.