Source for Federal Script???

[Major Matt Lewis]

Looking for where I can pick up some Federal Pay Script.

[RattlesnakeJack]

Richard:

If you've had no success with Google searches, or the like, it is probably because the word is actually "Scrip" ... no "t" .... 

[Beau]

SCRIP –noun
1.   a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
2.   a scrap of paper.
3.   Finance.
a.   a certificate representing a fraction of a share of stock.
b.   a certificate to be exchanged for goods, as at a company store.
c.   a certificate indicating the right of the holder to receive payment later in the form of cash, goods, or land.
4.   paper currency in denominations of less than one dollar, formerly issued in the United States.
[Origin: 1610–20; earliest sense "scrap of paper" perh. gradational var. of scrap1; subsequent sense development shows influence of script and subscription, with def. 3a specifically a shortening of subscription receipt]

Hey Pard,
Looks to me like you could make your own scrip, as in "certificate to be exchanged for goods or services."

Pre-War(1860)  many banks printed their own money, which was discounted from face value by the merchant willing to take a chance that it was any good.
I understand you do not want to make your own US currency copies,  conterfeiting will throw one in jail.
You could make them real purty with fancy edges and fonts,  from Bank of Virginia, or Georgia, or Mississippi.
You don't need them to look too good,  stain in strong tea to give it a brown tone and appearance of age.

Beau

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Actually, as per the site recommendations, it is perfectly OK to copy the images - they're history, not counterfeits.  Just don't try to SPEND one!   

Uncle Sugar might just take offense to you trying to spend the bills pictured.

[Beau]

http://www.frbsf.org/currency/expansion/privatebank/s44.html
Here is a link to a blank eight dollar note,  you see you could create something like this very easily.
Use you old dip pen and ink to sign and date appropriatly.

Good luck, and let us see what you come up with.
Beau

[Trailrider]

Just expect anywhere from 20-50 percent discount in value when using scrip as opposed to gold or silver!    Especially in Texas or many frontier towns!  Lots of folks don't like them "shin plasters"!