1.000 Dollars

The Confederate States of America had their first bond-backed currency printed in New York — by the National Bank Note Company, a Union firm, before the firing on Fort Sumter made such arrangements politically untenable. These early Confederate notes were engraved with far greater technical precision than anything the South could produce domestically, and that contrast becomes obvious when placed alongside later wartime issues from local printers working under blockade conditions.

The $1,000 denomination was never intended for everyday commerce. These were instruments of large-scale debt settlement and government finance, and relatively few were printed in the P#4 series.