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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| In circulation to | 1865 |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of R.M.T. Hunter at lower left, allegorical vignette of Hope with anchor at lower centre, and portrait of C.G. Memminger at lower right. Plate letters W–Z printed by Keatinge & Ball. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse on aged cotton paper with faint impression visible through the sheet, showing no distinct printed design elements aside from residual ink bleed from the obverse vignettes. |
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Keatinge & Ball were a Columbia, South Carolina firm pressed into service by the Confederate Treasury after Southern access to Northern printers — who had handled most pre-war US currency work — was severed entirely. Their Richmond operation was a wartime improvisation, not an established note-printing house, and the quality of successive Confederate issues reflects the tightening blockade: inks degraded, paper stocks became inconsistent, and engraving talent was in genuinely short supply.
The 1861 series was produced before those shortages bit hardest. P#25 notes from this period are among the more competently executed Confederate issues, though the paper itself — domestic cotton stock — has a distinct hand compared to the rag-and-linen blends used by Northern printers.
Counterfeiting was a significant and documented problem across all Confederate denominations by mid-war, with some fakes reportedly printed in the North as deliberate economic sabotage.