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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Judah P. Benjamin at upper left, with a central allegorical vignette of the South as a sword-wielding female figure striking down the Union. Issued in Series 1–10 by printer B. Duncan of South Carolina. Denomination and issuer inscriptions appear in letterpress within a plain border. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse on aged cotton paper with no printed design elements, typical of early Confederate issues produced under wartime printing constraints. |
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B. Duncan of Columbia was one of several regional printers the Confederacy turned to out of necessity — the South had no established security printing industry at the outbreak of war, and contracts were distributed to local commercial firms with whatever engraving capacity they could muster. The results varied considerably in quality and consistency, and Duncan's output for the 1861 series is no exception.
Pick 13 is among the more elusive of the early Confederate types, partly because Duncan's production runs were smaller than those of Hoyer & Ludwig in Richmond or the later New Orleans issues.