10 Dollars State of Georgia

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.