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1 Dollar State of Alabama
| Issuer | State of Alabama |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black with green underprint. Portrait vignette of Governor John Gill Shorter at left, a vignette of the State Capitol building at centre, and a tree with a state map motif at right. A large green protector overprint appears at lower centre. |
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| Protection type | Coloured underprint |
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Alabama's state treasury notes of 1863 were a fiscal improvisation — the state government issuing its own currency to manage expenditures as Confederate central finance buckled under wartime strain. J.T. Paterson & Co. operated out of Columbia, South Carolina, one of the few Southern printing firms capable of producing engraved currency after the blockade severed access to Northern and European printers.
Columbia's printing operations were destroyed when Sherman's army burned the city in February 1865, taking much of the documentary record with it.