Jefferson City, State of Missouri Secessionist $3 Jan. 1, 1862 Cr. 9, Uncirc.

Missouri was claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy, had two rival state governments, and sent representatives to both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress. Despite sporadic threats from pro-Confederate irregular armies and the Confederacy controlling Southern Missouri early in the war, the Union government had established permanent control of Missouri by 1862, with the Missouri Confederate government functioning only as a government in exile from Texas for the rest of the war.

This 3 Dollar Civil War issue features Claiborne Fox Jackson, who claimed to be anti-secession to get elected (but had secretly planned a secessionist coup with Jefferson Davis). He was deposed by the state's Unionist legislature and  fled in exile to Little Rock, Arkansas. He planned an invasion to take Missouri (which was under martial law during the entire Civil War) but died in exile of cancer on 6 December, 1862.

Catalogued as Criswell #9, and printed on the backs of bills of exchange, the catalogue states Rarity 6 (about 400-800 pieces known). This piece is very well printed and of exceptional quality.