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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Green and black bicolour note with a central vignette of male figures hoeing cotton. Plate letter A appears on the face. Handwritten entries present; issued as an interest-bearing obligation with 1,606 examples produced. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with no printed design, bearing multiple handwritten manuscript notations and endorsements in ink, consistent with the interest-bearing nature of this early Confederate obligation. |
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The Confederate States of America contracted the National Bank Note Company of New York to print its earliest currency — an arrangement that lasted only months before the outbreak of hostilities made using a Northern firm politically and logistically untenable. This note was printed in enemy territory before there was formally an enemy, a situation that underscores how quickly secession outpaced the practical business of establishing a functioning government.
Cotton paper was specified from the outset, a deliberate nod to the Confederacy's agricultural identity and, more practically, an attempt to distinguish its currency from Northern issues. NBNC's involvement ended by mid-1861.