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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Size | 185 × 85 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA TEN DOLLARS |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Confederate currency program was improvised under severe material constraints from the start. Keatinge & Ball, operating out of Columbia, South Carolina, was one of several Southern printers pressed into service precisely because the Confederacy had no established security printing infrastructure and no access to the major Northern bank note firms. The firm worked with locally sourced paper and plates of uneven quality, which accounts for the considerable variation — in ink color, paper stock, and impression sharpness — found across survivors of this series.
CS#26 was issued in the first year of the war, before hyperinflation gutted Confederate purchasing power. By 1864, ten dollars in Confederate notes bought little of practical value.