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10 Dollars State of Georgia
| Issuer | State of Georgia |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | Milledgeville. Ga. February 1st 1863. RECEIVABLE IN PAYMENT OF ALL DUES TO THE STATE AND TO THE WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAIL ROAD. THE STATE OF GEORGIA Will pay bearer TEN DOLLARS in Specie or six percent Bonds of this State, Six months after a Treaty of peace shall have been ratified between the United States and the Confederate States. No. for Compt. Genl. HOWELL, SAVANNAH. for Treasurer. REGISTERED. A A TEN 10 10 |
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| Protection description | Red circular handstamp reading REGISTERED applied to the face of the note at the time of issue. |
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Georgia financed much of its Confederate-era operations through a parallel state treasury apparatus, issuing notes independently of Richmond. This note came from Howell in Savannah — a local print shop pressed into service as demand for circulating paper far outstripped what the Confederate Bureau of Engraving could supply. The quality differential between Richmond-produced notes and locally printed Georgia state issues is marked; Howell lacked the engraving infrastructure to produce finely intaglio-worked currency.
By 1863 inflation was already eroding confidence in all Southern paper, state and Confederate alike. The registry stamp was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — a low bar, but counterfeiting of Georgian state notes was nonetheless documented during the war years.