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5 Dollars State of Florida, 3rd issue
| Issuer | State of Florida |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Reference(s) | Criswell CS#16 |
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| Obverse lettering | Tallahassee, March 1st 1863 THE STATE OF FLORIDA Will pay to the bearer on demand, FIVE DOLLARS THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE STATE PLEDGED Keatinge & Ball, Columbia S.C. Treasurer Governor |
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| Signature(s) | C.H. Austin and John Milton |
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Keatinge & Ball relocated from Richmond to Columbia, South Carolina in 1862 after losing their contract with the Confederate Treasury, and the Florida state notes they produced there reflect the compressed, often improvised conditions of wartime printing. The firm handled treasury work for several Confederate states simultaneously from Columbia — a situation that created genuine scheduling bottlenecks and occasional supply shortages that show up in the paper quality across the series.
John Milton was Florida's wartime governor from 1861 until his suicide in April 1865, four days before the Confederate surrender. His signature appears on state currency as a direct authorization — Florida had no functioning central bank, so the governor's office managed state finance directly.