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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1862-1863 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | At left, a small vignette with a portrait of John C. Calhoun, prominent theorist of Southern political ideology. The central field carries a vignette of three slaves working in a cotton field, flanked on the right by an allegorical figure of Columbia personifying the Confederacy. A bold red underprint reading HUNDRED dominates the note's center. |
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| Obverse lettering | The Confederate States of America will pay the bearer on demand One hundred Dollars |
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Keatinge & Ball relocated from Richmond to Columbia, South Carolina in 1862 after increasing pressure on the Confederate capital made continued operations there untenable. The firm became the Confederacy's most prolific printer by volume, though working under chronic shortages of quality ink, plate steel, and banknote paper — the last often sourced from European suppliers running the Union naval blockade.
The watermark on this series was one of the few meaningful anti-counterfeiting measures available, since the Confederacy lacked the industrial infrastructure to enforce tighter controls. By late 1862, Northern counterfeit operations — some commercially organized in the Ohio Valley — were flooding Confederate territory with convincing fakes of exactly this denomination.