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$100 Confederate States of America Note Feb 17, 1864 T-65 Grades Choice AU/BU Slider+

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$100 Confederate States of America Note Feb 17, 1864 T-65 Grades Choice AU/BU Slider+
$100 Confederate States of America Note Feb 17, 1864 T-65 Grades Choice AU/BU Slider+. After the Civil War broke out in 1861, the newly established Confederate government began to issue it's own money as legal tender to the citizens of the South. The gamble was that if the South won the war, the money would be redeemable. The 1st note from the Government of the Confederate States of America was issued in April of 1861. From then on, notes were issued on through 1864. Almost every Confederate note was painstakingly hand signed and numbered. It is not uncommon for these notes to have uneven, or rough borders since scissors or shears were used to hastily cut the sheets of notes apart.. The central portrait of this sought-after issue features Lucy Holcombe Pickens, who won the admiration of the Russian royal family while living in Russia as the wife of the U.S. ambassador. After her husband returned to serve as governor of South Carolina and then to support the Confederate cause, Lucy sold precious jewelry and other gifts from the Russian tsar and tsarina to outfit a group of Confederate soldiers dubbed the "Lucy Holcombe Legion.". Soldiers are depicted on the left side of the note, and to the right is a portrait of George Wythe Randolph – Thomas Jefferson's grandson. Randolph served as a Confederate general and briefly as the Secretary of War for the Confederacy. He founded the Richmond Howitzer Battalion, which fought with the Confederate army in Virginia and still exists as a unit of the Virginia National Guard.