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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Engraver(s) | Southern Bank Note Company |
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| Obverse description | At left, an allegorical vignette of Justice as a seated female figure; at centre, a classical intaglio vignette of Pallas and Ceres upon a cotton bale, symbolising agriculture and industry; at right, a portrait vignette of George Washington. The note is executed in letterpress and intaglio with ornate antebellum decorative border work characteristic of Southern Bank Note Company production. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface; manuscript ink notations and cancellation punch holes are typically present, with no engraved vignette or decorative elements on this side. |
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The Southern Bank Note Company was operating in New Orleans when it printed this note — the same firm that had spent decades producing currency for Southern commercial banks before secession gave it a new government client. The Confederate government leaned heavily on existing commercial printers in the first months of 1861 simply because it had no treasury infrastructure of its own; notes were being issued before a proper monetary system existed.
New Orleans fell to Union forces in April 1862, cutting off access to the Southern Bank Note Company entirely. Issues from this printer are consequently confined to the war's earliest phase.