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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4570184, member: 101855&quot;]<b>The $50 Note</b> This note featured Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy. Like all of these notes, it starts to become scarce in EF and Uncirculated.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131592[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1131593[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The $100 Note</b> The featured vignette on this note is Lucy Pickens, who was the wife of the Governor of South Carolina. The smaller vignette was George Wythe Randolph who was the secretary of war.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131635[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1131636[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, the Confederacy issued $517,900,00 worth of these notes. Given the fact that these notes are fairly common today, many people appeared to have “ate the loss” when their expiration dates passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a very collectable series. The 1864 notes are a bit easier while the 1862 notes are a bit harder. The 1861 notes are where the big collectors are separated from the smaller collectors. Thirty-seven of the 70 types of Confederate notes were issued in 1861, and quite a number of them are scarce and expensive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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