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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3431486, member: 101855"]The 1864 five and ten dollar confederate notes are the most common pieces in the series. By the end of the war, the Confederacy was desperate which led them to pump out large quantities of paper money. Even the 1864 $500 note is not that rare. It's just popular with collectors, probably because of the Stonewall Jackson portrait that appears on it. Overall the Confederacy issued 70 different types of notes during its existence. Forty-six of those designs were issued in 1861 and 1862.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of “New” (Uncirculated notes) to show how the higher grade pieces look.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911055[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]911056[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911057[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]911058[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is the 1864 $500 note. It has only one side because the plates for the reverses of all 1864 Confederate notes were intercepted by the Union blockade. The engravers made backs for the $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes, but for didn't make one for the $500 for reasons that I have yet to learn.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911062[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3431486, member: 101855"]The 1864 five and ten dollar confederate notes are the most common pieces in the series. By the end of the war, the Confederacy was desperate which led them to pump out large quantities of paper money. Even the 1864 $500 note is not that rare. It's just popular with collectors, probably because of the Stonewall Jackson portrait that appears on it. Overall the Confederacy issued 70 different types of notes during its existence. Forty-six of those designs were issued in 1861 and 1862. Here are a couple of “New” (Uncirculated notes) to show how the higher grade pieces look. [ATTACH=full]911055[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]911056[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]911057[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]911058[/ATTACH] And here is the 1864 $500 note. It has only one side because the plates for the reverses of all 1864 Confederate notes were intercepted by the Union blockade. The engravers made backs for the $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes, but for didn't make one for the $500 for reasons that I have yet to learn. [ATTACH=full]911062[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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