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10 Dollars State of Texas Treasury Warrant, Civil Service
| Issuer | State of Texas, Comptroller's Office |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on pink guilloche underprint of repeating ring motifs. A full-rigged sailing ship vignette occupies the left margin. The denomination appears in large bold Gothic type at centre, with the roman numeral X at upper right. Issued from the Comptroller's Office, Austin, with a small beehive device near the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Treasury Warrant Appropriation Under Act of 186_ for Civil Services The Treasurer of the State of Texas will pay TEN DOLLARS To _________________ or Bearer Comptroller's Office, Austin, __________ 1862 ____________Comptroller RECEIVABLE FOR STATE DUES |
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Texas entered the Confederacy in February 1861 and almost immediately faced the problem every Confederate state faced: no functioning central bank, no reliable coin supply, and a war that needed financing. These Treasury Warrants were issued by the Comptroller's Office as a locally produced substitute for hard currency — not Confederate notes, but Texas state obligations, technically redeemable against state funds that grew increasingly theoretical as the war continued.
Printing within Texas in 1862 meant working with whatever presses and engravers were available locally, which accounts for the relatively crude execution compared to antebellum Southern notes produced in New York or New Orleans before those channels closed.
The "Civil Service" designation identifies the purpose for which the warrant was drawn — payroll obligations rather than general bond financing.