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20 Dollars Parish of Concordia
| Issuer | Parish of Concordia, State of Louisiana |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | State of Louisiana The Parish of Concordia Promises to pay to bearer Twenty Dollars at Treasurers Office Vidalia Dec. 1st 1862. |
| Reverse description | Green lathe-work guilloche panel centered horizontally, composed of five interlocking ornate rosettes of graduated size surrounding a central blank oval, framed by elaborate scrollwork borders at each end. The obverse text is faintly visible in bleed-through on the aged paper. |
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Louisiana parishes issued their own currency early in the Civil War when the Confederate government had not yet organized reliable note supply to the states, and Concordia Parish — a narrow strip of land on the Mississippi's west bank, directly across from Natchez — was among the more active local issuers. The parish economy was built almost entirely on cotton and enslaved labor, and these notes circulated among planters, merchants, and factors who had no practical alternative.
Concordia fell under Union control relatively early in the war, which disrupted redemption entirely. Notes that survived did so largely by default — holders had nowhere to present them.