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| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a plain design, generally unadorned, consistent with the austere production standards of wartime Confederate currency issues of the 1861 series. |
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| Protection description | Paper generally of good quality with no watermark in the majority of examples; rare examples exhibit TEN and CSA watermarks (in uppercase or script lettering); exceptionally, J Whatman watermarks are known, and a NY countermark — not a true watermark but a mark associated with imported New York banknote paper — has also been recorded. |
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| Comments |
Keatinge & Ball established themselves in Columbia, South Carolina after the Union blockade effectively cut the Confederacy off from its preferred Northern and European printers. Their output for the Richmond government was substantial but technically inferior to the work of firms like the American Bank Note Company — the engraving is competent, not fine, and the paper stock varied considerably across print runs depending on what could be sourced domestically.
CS#24 falls within the first major wave of Confederate emission, when the Richmond Treasury was still attempting to project fiscal credibility. That effort collapsed quickly. By late 1861, overprinting had begun in earnest, and notes of this type depreciated steadily regardless of their physical condition.