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Change Bills

 

January 20, 1862 -- Series A
All five denominations ($1, 0.50, 0.25, 0.10 and 0.05) of series A change bills were printed. Superintendent John Sharpe Rowland (1795 - 1863) and Treasurer Ben May signed the first series of change bills. The first series change bills were printed on the back of obsolete Georgia bonds because the war created a shortage of good quality paper. The one dollar scrip comes with a bond back and a plain back. The date on the dollar denomination was left blank and filled out by hand when it was signed. Most known series dollar bills are dated January 20, 1862, but a rare variety dated February 22, 1862 shown below exists. Only four notes dated the 22nd has been confirmed.


   


Engraved by J. C. Buttre from a Daguerreotype
John S. Rowland
of Cartersville, Georgia
Engraved for Biographical Sketches of Eminent Americans

 

$0.05 G-1448 W&A Change Bill

$0.05 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1448


$0.05 G-1448 W&A Change Bill back

GA bond on back of $0.05 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1448


$0.10 G-1447 W&A Change Bill

$0.10 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1447


$0.10 G-1447 W&A Change Bill back

GA bond on back of $0.10 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1447


$0.25 G-1446 W&A Change Bill

$0.25 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1446


$0.25 G-1446 W&A Change Bill back

GA bond on back of $0.25 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1446


$0.25 G-1445 W&A Change Bill

$0.50 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1445


$0.25 G-1445 W&A Change Bill back

GA bond on back of $0.50 W&A Change Bill Jan. 20, 1862 G-1445


$1 G-1444 W&A Change Bill

$1 W&A Change Bill Jan'y 20, 1862 G-1444


$1 G-1444 W&A Change Bill back

GA bond on back of $1 W&A Change Bill Jan'y 20, 1862 G-1444


$1 G-1444 W&A Change Bill

$1 W&A Change Bill Jan'y 20, 1862 Plain back G-1444


$1 G-1444.1 W&A Change Bill dated 1/22/1862

$1 W&A Change Bill Feb'y 22, 1862 G-1444.1
Courtesy of Claud Murphy / Ken Latimer



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