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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a male slave harvesting cotton at top center, flanked by a large ornate numeral '10' at left and a small circular vignette at upper right. A rural landscape vignette appears at lower right. Plate letter 'C' at center top and right; issued at Richmond, dated September 2, 1861. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on white cotton paper stock, with no design elements, vignettes, or lettering. |
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B. Duncan of Columbia, South Carolina was one of several regional printers pressed into service by the Confederate Treasury — a consequence of having no established national printing infrastructure at the outbreak of secession. Duncan's output for the 1861 series is generally considered among the cruder lithographic work in the Confederate currency program, lacking the engraved quality that Southern authorities had hoped to source from Northern firms they could no longer use.
Cotton paper was a practical choice given the Union naval blockade's effect on rag paper supplies, though it created its own consistency problems across the run. Counterfeiting of Confederate notes was rampant almost immediately — Northern presses produced fakes in quantity, and Duncan's relatively simple lithography offered little defense.