Collection

Confederate States of America 1864 – 10 Dollars (T-68 PF-3 CR-541, First Series in Roman Letters, Richmond, PCGS 62 Uncirculated)

The ten-dollar note of the February 17, 1864 issue, cataloged as T-68 (Criswell 541), was among the final wartime emissions of the Confederate Treasury. Printed in Richmond, Virginia, by Keatinge & Ball of Columbia, South Carolina, it forms part of the most widely recognized Confederate paper-money design family—distinguished by pink underprint, detailed engraving, and complex typography produced under severe wartime constraints. The central vignette depicts Confederate artillery and cavalry maneuvering on the battlefield, a composition drawn from an original steel engraving used by the American Bank Note Company before the war. ... Read more →

Confederate States of America 1864 – 100 Dollars (T-65 CR-121, Pink Underprint, Richmond, PMG 63 EPQ Choice Uncirculated)

The one-hundred-dollar note of the February 17, 1864 Confederate issue, cataloged as T-65 (Criswell 121), was the highest denomination of the Confederacy’s final paper-money series. Printed by Keatinge & Ball in Columbia, South Carolina, this design became the standard visual icon of Confederate finance, widely distributed in the waning months of the Civil War when inflation and military collapse had eroded the South’s economy. The central vignette features an allegorical female portrait often described as Lucy Pickens of South Carolina, the 'Queen of the Confederacy,' crowned with a garland and facing right beneath an arched CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA title. ... Read more →