US461.)CONFEDERATE STATE 1864 $10 NOTE: pristine and perfect, unissued. This is the Confederate type 68 $10 note according to the Criswell numbering system (each CSA paper note has an identifying number). Engraved on fine banknote paper with central vignette being an artillery caisson rolling to the front. In lower right corner is cameo portrait of CSA Georgia state senator Robert M.T.Hunter. Hand inscribed serial number on note '85015' with letter 'C' showing the plate position of this note on each printed sheet of ten (before being hand cut into individual notes)...so technically this note's number is '85015C'. Printed with anti-counterfeiting lace pattern background, elaborate printing on the reverse too to discourage counterfeiters. Printed too with 'The Confederate States of America, Will Pay TEN DOLLARS to Bearer' and issued at 'Richmond, Virginia February 17th, 1864'. Printed also with this note's plate maker 'Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, SC' and the printer as well 'Evans & Cogswell'. Signed in ink too by proxies for the Confederate registrar and the treasurer too. No folds to paper nor any creases. 

1864 was the last year that the Confederacy printed any banknotes and by then CSA paper money had a really diminished transactional value. So it's not uncommon to find these in such a fine, unissued, state of preservation. There are stories of hundreds of CSA notes having been released to the public out of southern banks that had been holding them in their vaults up into the 1930's. 

The type 68 $10 CSA note is typically selling for around $135.00 is this superb state of preservation.