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1 Dollar State of Florida, 3rd issue
| Issuer | State of Florida |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black with a red-orange ONE/1 underprint. At upper left, a circular vignette bears a seated allegorical group with the legend of the State of Florida. At center top, an intaglio agricultural scene shows enslaved field workers harvesting cotton, with a standing overseer figure in the foreground. At lower left, a vignette of a cherub or young child appears in a soft engraved style. To the right, three stacked octagonal guilloche medallions bear the denomination ONE / 1 / ONE in bold. The bold letterpress panel THE STATE OF FLORIDA spans the center, with the promise text and ONE DOLLAR denomination cartouche below, flanked by manuscript signatures of the Treasurer and Governor, and a small seal reading THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE STATE PLEDGED at bottom center. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted. |
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Keatinge & Ball, operating out of Columbia, South Carolina, were among the few Confederate-aligned engravers capable of producing government-quality currency during the war years. Florida contracted with them directly — the state issued its own notes independently of Confederate Treasury policy, driven partly by a chronic shortage of small-denomination coin that made even a single dollar's worth of change a practical impossibility by 1863.
John Milton, whose signature appears here as governor, was a committed secessionist who took his own life in April 1865 days before the Confederacy's final collapse. He never saw the state's paper money redeemed.