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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Red-orange X-X guilloche underprint. Portrait of R.M.T. Hunter at lower left, allegorical vignette of Hope with anchor at lower center, and portrait of C.G. Memminger at lower right. Plate letters W–Z. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse on aged cotton paper, with no central vignette or printed device; the note's reverse presents a largely unadorned surface consistent with the wartime economy issue of this series. |
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Keatinge & Ball operated in Richmond and became the Confederacy's most prolific note printer, but by late 1861 the limitations were already showing. Cotton paper was chosen partly out of necessity — Northern suppliers were cut off — yet the resulting stock varied considerably in weight and color across print runs, making P#26 examples genuinely inconsistent even within the same series.
The underprint was a rudimentary anti-counterfeiting measure that proved largely ineffective. Northern presses, most notoriously in New York, flooded the South with convincing fakes, and the Confederate Treasury knew it. Distinguishing genuine Keatinge & Ball production from contemporary counterfeits remains a real authentication issue with this type.