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20 Dollars Confederate Loan
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset coupon with a ruled border frame. Text is arranged in letterpress across the face, with a handwritten signature of H. Starke for the Register of the Treasury. No pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint is present. |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank reverse with no printed text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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The Confederate government's early borrowing instruments occupy an odd corner of Civil War financial history. This 1861 obligation predates the better-known Confederate Treasury notes and reflects the Richmond government's initial attempt to fund the war through bonds and loan certificates rather than outright currency emission — a policy that collapsed within months under the pressure of military expenditure.
H. Starke served as a register-level signatory on several early Confederate obligations. The series is notably scarce; attrition from both wartime conditions and the deliberate destruction of Confederate financial paper after 1865 thinned surviving populations considerably.