Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
|---|---|
| Year | 1862-1863 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 100 Dollars |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | At centre, a vignette of socialite Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens in bust portrait facing right, wearing a laurel wreath. To the left, a vignette of two soldiers in military dress, one seated and one standing, each holding a rifle. To the right, a bust portrait of Senator George Wythe Randolph facing left, set within an oval medallion. The denomination 100 appears at multiple positions across the note. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | CONFEDERATE States of America 100 |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Pick 55 spans the transition between two distinct manufacturing realities. Early 1862 impressions were produced by Hoyer & Ludwig in Richmond, a lithographic firm pressed into currency work despite having no meaningful security printing background. Later in the series, production shifted to other Confederate contractors as the blockade tightened and quality materials — good rag paper above all — became genuinely difficult to source.
Counterfeiting of Confederate currency was rampant by 1862, much of it originating in the North as a deliberate economic warfare strategy. Some Northern-made fakes were technically superior to the originals, which says something about the procurement constraints under which Confederate printers were working.