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50 Cents - The State of Georgia
| Issuer | State of Georgia |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 THE STATE OF GEORGIA FIFTY CENTS MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. JANUARY 1ST 1863 Will pay the bearer FIFTY CENTS at the Treasury in Confederate Treasury Notes, when presented in sums of Five Dollars and upwards. For Compt. Genl. REGISTERED Howell, Engraver. For Treasurer COPY |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain aged yellowish paper stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the single-sided printing practice common to Civil War-era Southern state fractional currency. |
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Georgia's state-issued fractional notes of 1863 were a direct response to the near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation across the Confederacy — hoarding had stripped the channels of anything spendable below a dollar. The state treasury at Milledgeville, then still the capital before Atlanta's rise, issued these notes under legislative authority as a practical stopgap rather than a formal banking instrument.
The engraver credit "Howell" almost certainly refers to a local Milledgeville engraver working with whatever equipment was available under wartime supply constraints — far removed from the pre-war southern reliance on Northern or European printing houses.