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Message:: [QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 2852832, member: 74863"]Just Picked these up the other day. Real beauties!! I'm very happy!! These notes were printed on a full sheet of 8 bills. Each note printed was signed and numbered by hand. Red ink was used for the serial numbers. A wee bit faded but what do expect after 156 years? They are more faded in the photos than in hand. All 8 bills on each sheet have the same serial number. The difference, which makes it easy to distinguish, are the plate numbers. No uncut sheet of 1861 $10.00 T-30 notes is known to exist, and no individual 1861 $10.00 T-30 notes from the same sheet have ever surfaced on the market to my knowledge, aside from these, and these just surfaced for the first time. I had no problem in purchasing them when offered, sight unseen. I do trust my dealer and once again, he came through with absolute perfection. (It pays to have a good dealer.) Plus, I got them at a very good price. These are cataloged as a set of 1861 $10 T-30 notes. I have never seen a set of this issue from the same sheet before, and seriously doubt if any others will surface.These notes are much scarcer than finding notes with consecutive serial numbers. These 2 notes have been handed down through generations from relatives that owned a store in the south. The family line has been traced to their store and these notes were taken in by that store in exchange of goods in the final days of the Civil War, and passed down in the family. Both notes have serial number 49771, and were placed right next to each other in the placement on the sheet. You can see the exact cut between the two bills that someone working for the Confederacy did with scissors in 1861.  Each one has crisp paper, nice signatures, and clear numbering.  Dark details on both.  No rips, tears or repairs on either note. Plate # 5 is fully framed (Black lines around the bill to frame it in) and grades CHOICE VERY FINE+. (The upper left corner is missing the border.)Plate # 6  is nearly fully framed and grades VERY FINE+. A Bonus Exists ~ Whoever wrote the serial number on the Plate #6 note forgot to add the 1 (last digit) at the top serial number, which also makes it a nice error note. The manufacturer of these bills is B. Duncan, Columbia SC. This is the very desirable "sweet potato note" from the first year of issue for the Confederate States of America. The 'Sweet Potato Dinner' nickname came from the more detailed depiction of General Francis Marion, Revolutionary War hero and native of South Carolina with an aide standing at a table with sweet potatoes. The necessity of financing military operations during the Civil War forced the Confederate government to print paper money, just as the U.S. government did for the first time.                                                Currency Highlights:<ul> <li>These are the first series of notes to be issued by the Confederate States in 1861 during the Civil War  </li> <li>In Crisp Very Fine+ condition</li> <li>Face: Central vignette of a "Sweet Potato Dinner". It also depicts an oval portrait of R.M.T. Hunter, who served as the Confederate Secretary of State, at left, and the goddess Minerva on the right</li> <li>Back: Intentionally left blank</li> </ul> For the purpose of posting them for your enjoyment, I tried to show that these CSA notes due in fact, line up. The Treasurer's signature on Plate #5 flows onto Plate #6. The cut line is perfect in hand but difficult to show in photos. I had the camera a little to close in the 2nd obverse photo but all detail shows in the first photo. 1,939,810 notes were issued for this series. These notes are serial number 49771 so it's on the low side. [ATTACH=full]677363[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]677364[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]677365[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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