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10 Dollars State of Florida
| Issuer | State of Florida |
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| Year | 1864 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Issued at Tallahassee on March 1st, 1864, this note carries a central vignette of Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture, seated upon a bale of hay with a scythe in her right hand and a caduceus in her left. At upper left, two reclining female figures appear within a circular panel surrounded by text, while at lower left a gaff-rigged sloop is rendered in intaglio and at lower right a slave is shown picking cotton. The note bears the manuscript signatures of Governor John Milton and Treasurer C.H. Austin, with the principal obligation text disposed across the face in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | TALLAHASSEE, March 1st 1864 RECEIVABLE BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN PAYMENT OF ALL DUES AND DEMANDS The STATE OF FLORIDA Will pay to the bearer on demand TEN DOLLARS The PUBLIC LANDS of the STATE PLEDGED |
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Florida's wartime treasury notes were a product of desperate improvisation. With Confederate supply lines strained and Northern blockades cutting off access to established printers, the state fell back on local production — hence the Tallahassee imprint, unusual for a currency issue of any ambition. The results were predictably crude by the standards of contemporary Eastern engravers.
John Milton, Florida's governor from 1861 until his suicide on April 1, 1865 — one day before Confederate Tallahassee fell — signed these notes in office. That biographical endpoint gives the 1864 issues a particular historical edge among collectors of Southern state paper.