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50 Dollars Clinton County, Indiana
| Issuer | Clinton County, Indiana |
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| Year | 1865 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CLINTON COUNTY MILITARY OBLIGATION FOR FIFTY DOLLARS |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Clinton County's 1865 scrip issue belongs to the broader wave of county and municipal paper that flooded Indiana during and immediately after the Civil War, filling the vacuum left by the near-total disappearance of small-denomination federal coin from circulation. Hoarding had stripped the Midwest of specie by 1862, and local governments improvised. Clinton County's solution was printed in Frankfort — the county seat — rather than contracted to one of the established bank note printing houses in Cincinnati or New York, which was unusual even by the loose standards of wartime emergency currency.
The embossed seal was the primary authentication device, a low-cost measure that discouraged casual counterfeiting without requiring intaglio printing. At fifty dollars, this is the high denomination of the series — most county scrip circulated at fractional or single-digit values.