PMG GemUNC 66 $10 Confederate States Chemicograph Banknote Civil War Paper Money

1958 Bertram C468a PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ. This Bertram number was printed from a genuine S. Straker & Sons London plate as stated on page 50 of Confederate Numismatica 2018 Supplement One by Peter Bertram. Reverse 1 lacks the small, faint "SDC" rubberstamping on the back.

It is estimated that Philip Chase prepared a scarce 400 Fourth Printing Reverse 1 sets, many of which are lost and no longer in exhistence. The fronts of the 1864 Confederate Treasury notes were so similar to those of 1863 that new reverse plates were needed and ordered from England. The 1864 plain designs unfortunately lost the counterfeit deterring value of the distinctive Chemicograph designs. But a few of the Chemicograph plates did somehow survive and were used to produce four printings starting circa 1879 and into the 1950s.