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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Size | 149 x 64 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA 100 DOLLARS ACT OF FEBRUARY 17TH, 1864 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey with a bold guilloche lathe-work underprint filling the entire field. The word HUNDRED is rendered in large decorative letterpress typeface at center, flanked by the numeral 100 in ornamental roundels at each corner within a geometric border frame. |
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By the time Keatinge & Ball produced the 1864 series in Columbia, the Confederate Treasury was printing currency faster than the government could collect taxes, and the inflationary spiral was already irreversible. The Trans-Mississippi supply chain had collapsed, blockades had choked off foreign credit, and notes like this one were depreciating almost weekly — by early 1865, it took well over 50 Confederate dollars to buy a single US dollar on the open market.
Keatinge & Ball relocated operations from Richmond to Columbia in 1862 specifically to reduce vulnerability to Union advances, though Columbia itself was burned by Sherman's forces in February 1865, destroying much of the firm's remaining stock and equipment.