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4 Dollars - Bank of Florida
| Issuer | Bank of Florida |
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| Year | 1864 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | FOUR 4 No. 542 A 4 FOUR The BANK OF FLORIDA Promises to pay Four Dollars on demand to the Rec'd or bearer at the Office of D. Kennedy COPY TALLAHASSEE Feb. 1 1864 IIII Cashr. Jay Geo Graham Pres |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse design, with no deliberate printed elements. |
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The $4 denomination was never common in American banking, but Confederate-era Florida institutions leaned on odd denominations partly to complicate counterfeiting and partly because small change was genuinely scarce by 1864. The Bank of Florida was operating under extreme duress by this point — blockades had gutted commerce, specie had vanished from circulation, and public confidence in paper of any kind was deteriorating rapidly.
Printing locally in Tallahassee rather than contracting with established security printers in the North (now enemy territory) or even Richmond meant working with whatever equipment and skilled labor remained available. The production quality reflects those constraints.