1 Dollar State of Florida

Florida entered the Confederacy in January 1861, and this note predates the establishment of the Confederate Treasury's own currency infrastructure. States issued their own obligations to meet immediate fiscal needs — payroll, procurement, basic government functions — before Richmond could coordinate a unified monetary policy. Florida's treasury was thin, its tax base narrow, and its population among the smallest of the seceding states.

Hoyer & Ludwig, a Richmond lithography firm better known for commercial work, became a primary printer for Confederate and state obligations early in the war largely by proximity. Their output was competent lithography rather than engraved work, and Florida notes from this printer are noticeably less refined than contemporaneous issues from established security printers in the North.