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1 Dollar State of Louisiana
| Issuer | State of Louisiana |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | RECEIVABLE FOR ALL DUES TO THE STATE. Twelve months after a Treaty of Peace between The Confederate States and the United States The STATE OF LOUISIANA Will pay ONE DOLLAR to the Bearer at the Treasurer's Office SHREVEPORT, March 1, 1864 ____________ For TREASURER SOUTH-WESTERN PRINT. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the blind impression of the obverse design through the thin paper stock, with no deliberate design elements or lettering applied. |
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By 1864, Louisiana's Confederate state treasury was operating almost entirely from Shreveport — New Orleans had fallen to Union forces in April 1862 and never came back. South-Western Print was one of the few functioning commercial presses remaining in Confederate Louisiana, and the limitations of wartime supply show: the paper stock used across this series is notoriously inconsistent, ranging from reasonable rag paper to coarse substitutes that have not aged well.
Genuine circulation examples from this period often show heavy handling damage. The Confederacy's paper money was inflating catastrophically by late 1864, and small-denomination state issues like this one were passed hand to hand far more aggressively than higher-value notes.