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1 Dollar State of Louisiana
| Issuer | State of Louisiana |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale buff paper, the obverse carries a standing vignette of Minerva at the left margin, robed and posed beside a pedestal, with the word ONE in an ornate cartouche below her. A central vignette presents a side-wheel steamship underway on water, framed above by large numeral counters I at each upper corner and flanked on the right by a vertical panel with the denomination spelled out. The issuer's name THE STATE OF LOUISIANA is set in large display type across the centre, with the promise to pay ONE DOLLAR to the bearer at the Treasurer's Office, place and date SHREVEPORT, March 1, 1864, and the printer's imprint SOUTH-WESTERN PRINT. at lower centre. |
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| 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.