T-65 PF-1 $100 1864 Confederate Paper Money

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T-65 PF-1 $100.00 CSA Currency. Soldiers to the left. Lucy H. Pickens, center. George W. Randolph to the right. No Series. Serial number 72351. Plen C.Fine using traditional grading. Somewhat dirty. Probably a PCGS or PMG Very Fine 20.Genuine.The T-65 has the new simpler blue back. The printers used a machine to stamp the serial numbers onto the note. These mechanisms were designed to make this note more difficult to counterfeit. Nevertheless, some counterfeits exist today that are not hard to detect once one knows to look for.The center of the note has a vignette of Lucy Pickens, the wife of the Governor of South Carolina. There was a lot of debate about whether this vignette was of Pickens or of Mrs. Jefferson Davis in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. However, H.D. Allen goes to great length to show that it is indeed Mrs. Pickens. At the lower left are figures representing the army and artillery branches of the military. George Wythe Randolph, the Secretary of War, is featured in the lower right corner. The reverse is a simple blue back with the denomination. This note was payable two years after the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States and United States.This type comes on high quality bank note paper. Some of these also come on short and longer paper with a difference of 1/4 inch. Though technically read more