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4 Dollars State of Georgia
| Emittent | State of Georgia |
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| Jahr | 1863-1864 |
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| Form | Rectangular |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | At left, a vignette of enslaved workers picking cotton in a field; at center, an allegorical figure of Moneta seated on a chest gazes toward a large numeral 4; at right, an enslaved figure holding grain stands beside a horse and dog. The Georgia state coat of arms appears at the lower center, framing the typeset text above. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Midgeville, GA. January 1st 1864 THE STATE OF GEORGIA Will pay to bearer FOUR DOLL-ARS at the Treasury in Confederate Treasury Notes, when presented in sums of Five Dollars and upwards. ________ For Comp.t Gen.l ___________For Treasurer Howell. Engraver. |
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Georgia issued this note through its state treasury during the Confederacy's most fiscally strained years — by 1863, Richmond's printing operations were overwhelmed and individual states were increasingly left to fund their own war efforts through locally produced paper. The $4 denomination is an oddity that reflects wartime pragmatism over monetary logic; standard commercial values meant nothing when coin had vanished entirely from circulation and change-making required creative arithmetic.
Howell's engraving work, done in Milledgeville while the city still functioned as Georgia's capital before Sherman's march, represents one of the few identifiable Southern engravers working under genuine material constraints — copper, ink, and qualified press operators were all in short supply.