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75 Cents County of Shenandoah
| Issuer | County of Shenandoah |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A wholly typeset, text-based obligation on cream paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. At the top center, the large bold numeral "75" is flanked by italic legends reading "Issued by Order of Court." to the left and "Receivable in payment of County Dues." to the right, with the place and date "Woodstock, Va., May 11th, 1863" immediately below. The central field carries the promise-to-pay clause in graduated letterpress type, with the written denomination "Seventy-Five Cents" in the largest display font; a small guilloche ornament occupies the lower-left corner, and two manuscript signatures with the role abbreviations "CL'K" and "P. J." are applied across the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Issued by Order of Court. 75 Receivable in payment of County Dues. Woodstock, Va., May 11th, 1863. THE COUNTY OF SHENANDOAH WILL PAY THE BEARER, IN CURRENT FUNDS, Seventy-Five Cents WHEN PRESENTED IN SUMS OF TEN DOLLARS. CL'K. P. J. |
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Shenandoah County issued fractional scrip in 1863 because hard coin had essentially vanished from the Shenandoah Valley by that point — hoarded, melted, or absorbed into military supply chains on both sides. Confederate small-denomination currency was chronically short, and local governments across Virginia stepped in to fill the gap. County-issued scrip of this type was redeemable in theory but backed by little more than local faith in a government already under severe strain.
Woodstock was the county seat and the logical printing point, though production quality for locally issued Virginia scrip varied considerably. Notes from this series are genuinely scarce — county-level fractional issues were not systematically preserved, and most circulated until they disintegrated.