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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Allegorical vignette at lower left with Minerva reclining against a shield; Navigation kneeling at top center; a blacksmith at an anvil occupies the lower right. Plate letter A in the lower margin. Printed by Southern Bank Note Company. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged cotton paper, typical of Confederate Treasury issues of the 1861 series, with no vignette or overprint. |
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The Southern Bank Note Company was one of several New Orleans engravers pressed into service after the Confederacy lost access to the major Northern bank note firms — American Bank Note Company and National Bank Note Company both declined Confederate contracts. The result was a fragmented early issue produced under considerable logistical pressure, with multiple printers handling different denominations simultaneously.
New Orleans fell to Union forces in April 1862, effectively ending Southern Bank Note Company's role in Confederate currency production. Notes from this printer are among the earlier emissions of the CSA series and predate the inflationary collapse that rendered later Confederate paper nearly worthless before the war's end.