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Replica - 100 Dollars Confederate
| Issuer | Confederate States of America |
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| Year | 1864 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Richmond Nov 20, 1864 No. No. Six Months after the Ratification of a Treaty of Peace between The Confederate States & The United States of America Z Z Confederate States of America Will pay to the bearer on demand ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS WITH INTEREST AT TWO CENTS PER DAY HUNDRED Keatinge & Ball Columbia S. C. FOR REGISTER FOR TREASURER Receivable in Payment of All Dues Except Export Duties. |
| Reverse description | Monochrome blue letterpress back with a dense lathe-work guilloche underprint filling the entire field; the large bold denomination legend occupies the centre, flanked by numeral counter boxes at each corner, with repeated denomination banners along the top and bottom borders. |
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Keatinge & Ball relocated from Richmond to Columbia, South Carolina, in 1862 after Union threats to the Virginia capital made continued operations there untenable. The firm became the Confederacy's primary printer for the final two years of the war, producing enormous quantities of currency as Confederate finances collapsed under hyperinflation. By 1864, the hundred-dollar denomination had so little purchasing power that the Confederate Congress attempted a forced currency reform in February of that year — holders had to exchange old notes at a discount or lose value entirely.
Columbia itself was burned in February 1865, destroying much of the remaining printing stock. CR-491 replicas circulate widely in the collector market; distinguishing them from originals requires examination of paper composition and ink chemistry.