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Twenty (20) Confederate States of America (CSA) currency notes, including eight (8) dated 1861. 1st item:Paper Money Guarantee (PMG) graded T-5 $100 one hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated August 28, 1861. Vignette of a train rounding a bend, top center, a vignette of the goddess Justice, lower left, and vignette of the goddess Minerva, top right. Printed by the Southern Bank Note Company, New Orleans, LA. Tyler/Elmore signatures. 2nd item: T-13 $100 one hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Vignette of men loading bales of cotton onto a wagon, top center, vignette of a sailor, lower left. Printed by Hoyer and Ludwig, Richmond, VA. 3rd item: T-20 $20 twenty dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Vignette of Industry seated between a winged Cupid holding a staff of Mercury, top center, Hope leaning on an anchor, top right, bust portrait of Alexander H. Stephens, CSA Vice President, lower left. Printed by B. Duncan, Richmond, VA. 4th item: T-21 $20 twenty dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Bust portrait of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the CSA, against an agricultural background, top center. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. 5th item: T-25 $10 ten dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Vignette of the goddess Hope with anchor, lower center, bust portrait vignette of Robert M.T. Hunter, CSA Secretary of State and Confederate Senator, lower left, bust portrait vignette of Christopher Gustavus Memminger, CSA Secretary of Treasury, lower right. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Richmond, VA. 6th item: PCGS Currency graded T-34 $5 five dollar bill. issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Bust portrait vignette of Christopher Gustavus Memminger, CSA Secretary of Treasury, top center, vignette of the goddess Minerva, top left. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Richmond, VA. 7th-8th items: Two (2) T-36 $5 five dollar bills, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Vignette of the seated goddess Commerce, top center, vignette of a sailor, lower left. Printed by J. T. Paterson and Company, Columbia, SC. 9th item: T-37 $5 five dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1861. Vignette of a seated sailor, top center, bust portrait vignette of Christopher Gustavus Memminger, CSA Secretary of Treasury, lower left, vignette of the goddesses Justice and Ceres, top right. Printed by B. Duncan, Columbia, SC. 10th item: T-39 $100 one hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, Virginia, dated May 6, 1862. Vignette of a steam train, foreground, with warships in the background, top center, vignette of a milkmaid in a naturalistic setting, lower left. Printed by Hoyer and Ludwig, Richmond, VA. 11th item: T-40 $100 one hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, Virginia, dated October 6, 1862. Vignette of a steam train, foreground, with warships in the background, top center, vignette of a milkmaid in a naturalistic setting, lower left. Printed by J. T. Paterson and Company, Columbia, SC. 12th item: T-41 $100 one hundred dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated November 3, 1862. Vignette of two African Americans working a cotton field, top center, vignette of the goddess Columbia, lower right, bust portrait vignette of John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina and one-time vice-president to President Andrew Jackson, lower left. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. 13th item: T-42 $2 two dollar bill, issued in Richmond, Virginia, dated June 2, 1862. Vignette of a female personification of the South striking down to Union, top center, bust portrait vignette of Judah Philip Benjamin, CSA cabinet officer, top left. Printed by B. Duncan, Columbia, SC. 14th item: T-44 $1 one dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated June 2, 1862. Vignette of a steamship at sea, top center, vignette of the goddess Liberty, top left, bust portrait vignette of Lucy Pickens, the “Queen of the Confederacy,” lower right. Printed by B. Duncan, Columbia, SC. 15th item: T-46 $10 ten dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated September 2, 1862. Vignette of the goddess Ceres, top center, bust portrait vignette of Robert M.T. Hunter, CSA Secretary of State and Confederate Senator, lower right. Printed by Hoyer and Ludwig, Richmond, VA. 16th item: T-56 $100 one hundred dollar bills, issued in Richmond, Virginia, dated April 6, 1863. Profile portrait vignette of Lucy Pickens, the “Queen of the Confederacy,” top center, bust portrait vignette of George Wythe Randolph, CSA Secretary of War, lower right, and a vignette of two soldiers holding rifles, lower left. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. 17th item: T-57 $50 fifty dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated April 6, 1863. Bust portrait vignette of Jefferson Davis, President of the CSA, top center. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. 18th item: T-58 $20 twenty dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated April 6, 1863. Vignette of the Tennessee State Capitol Building, top center, portrait of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the CSA, lower right. Engraved by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC, lithographed by Evans and Cogswell, Charleston, SC. 19th item: T-63 $0.50 fifty cent fractional notes, issued in Richmond, VA, dated April 6, 1863 – February 17, 1864. Bust profile vignette of Jefferson Davis, CSA President, top center. Engraved by Archer and Daly, Richmond, VA. Signed by Registrar of the Treasury Robert Tyler and Treasurer Edward Carrington Elmore. 20th item: T-71 $1 one dollar bill, issued in Richmond, VA, dated February 17, 1864. Bust portrait vignette of Clement Claiborne Clay, CSA state senator from Alabama, top center. Engraved and printed by Keatinge and Ball, Columbia, SC. All with For Register/For Treasurer signatures unless specified in description. 21st item: Faux red leather binder and a grey cloth slipcase, both with gilt lettering. 12 1/2″ H x 11 5/8″ W x 2″ D. Provenance: private Nashville collection. CONDITION: 1st item: PMG graded Fine. Punch cancelation holes to each corner. 2nd-3rd items: Extremely fine. 4th item: Fine to Very fine. 5th item: Fine. 6th item: PMG graded Very fine. 7th-8th items: Very good to Fine. One note with7/8″ x 2 1/8″ piece of old scotch tape, to reverse. 9th item: Fine+. 10th item: Fine+ to About uncirculated. 11th-12th items: Uncirculated. 13th item: Fine to Extremely fine. 14th item: Fine to Very fine. 15th item:Uncirculated. 16th item: Fine+. 17th item: Extremely fine to About uncirculated. 18th item: Very fine. 19th-20th items: Uncirculated to Crisp uncirculated.21st item: Binder and slipcase in overall good condition.