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1 Dollar State of Mississippi
| Issuer | State of Mississippi |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse lettering | BY AUTHORITY OF LAW THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Will Pay ONE DOLLAR to Bearer in current money when the sum of Ten dollars is presented Macon May 1st 1864. |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank. |
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By 1864, Mississippi had been cut off from Confederate printing centers for months. This note was produced in Macon, where the state government had relocated after Jackson fell to Union forces in 1863 — one of several makeshift wartime issues turned out under deeply constrained conditions.
The typography and engraving quality reflect the near-total collapse of Southern printing infrastructure by this stage of the war. Redemption was contingent on Confederate victory, which never came, and the vast majority of these notes were rendered worthless within a year of issue.