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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of a seated sailor at lower left, with Ceres enthroned atop a cotton bale at upper center. Text panel carries denomination and issuer inscription. Issued with serial prefix AA and in Second and Third Series. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA FIVE DOLLARS |
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Pick 19 encompasses several distinct printings of the 1861 Confederate $5 — Hoyer & Ludwig and the two Patterson variants are separate firms producing what are technically different notes catalogued under the same number. Hoyer & Ludwig, a Richmond lithography shop better known for commercial work, was pressed into currency production precisely because the Confederacy lacked an established security printer in its early months. The results vary considerably in execution across the printings.
Cotton paper was chosen partly from necessity — Southern mills had it, and the blockade made quality banknote paper increasingly difficult to source as the war continued.