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25 Dollars - Elks Club Annual Fair Lewistown, Montana
| Issuer | Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lewistown Lodge No. 456 |
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| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | A genuine Confederate States of America $1 note (Richmond, Feb. 17th, 1864), engraved by Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C., used as the base document. A bold black typeset "$25" overprint dominates the center, with guilloche side panels bearing "ONE" vertically at left and right. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower center. |
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| Obverse lettering | $25 RICHMOND. Febr. 17th, 1864. Six months after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States & the United States of America, THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA Will pay to the bearer on demand ONE DOLLAR Engraved by Keatinge & Ball Columbia S.C. |
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Keatinge & Ball were Confederate government printers during the Civil War, responsible for a substantial portion of the South's wartime currency production. That a Montana fraternal lodge was still commissioning work from them decades later — for fair scrip, no less — says something about the firm's postwar survival and continued reach into niche commercial printing markets well outside their wartime notoriety.
Fair scrip of this denomination is unusual. Twenty-five dollars was a serious sum for a lodge fundraiser, suggesting either bulk purchasing arrangements with vendors or a system designed to minimize change-making at busy event booths. Lewistown Lodge No. 456 received its charter in 1902.