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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 5242852, member: 101855&quot;]The Confederacy was short of everything, including paper, especially toward the end. One of the men, Blanton Duncan, who printed notes for the Confederate Government, got caught red handed stealing paper from another printer. Duncan overcharged the Confederacy for his notes, which were of mediocre quality. At one point he tried to take over another printer’s facilities under the pretext that he had authorization from the Army to do so. He didn’t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ultimately he became persona non grata among confederate officials. Here is a sample of his work, an 1862 Confederate note, known as T-43.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218028[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>At one point Duncan thought that he could collect higher fees if he added the green &quot;2 TWO&quot; to the note. The officials were not moved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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