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10 Dollars State of North Carolina
| Issuer | State of North Carolina |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Reference(s) | Criswell CS#122 |
| Obverse description | At center, a large engraved vignette of the North Carolina State Capitol building in Raleigh, set within an oval landscape surround. To the lower left, an oval portrait vignette of Governor Zebulon B. Vance within a decorative guilloche border, with the denomination numeral 10 at the far left in a vertical panel. A bold red overprinted X with the legend TEN spans the lower center as an underprint, and a further denomination counter with the numeral 10 appears at the upper right within a geometric lathe-work panel. The note was engraved and lithographed by J.T. Paterson & Co. of Augusta, Georgia. |
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| Reverse description | Blank, unprinted. |
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J.T. Paterson & Co. operated out of Augusta, Georgia, one of the few Southern printing firms capable of producing multi-state Confederate currency work after Federal blockades cut off access to Northern engravers. North Carolina contracted with them for multiple denominations across several 1863 emissions as the state's own resources thinned under wartime pressure.
By mid-1863, North Carolina was issuing its own currency partly to manage a growing gap between Confederate Treasury notes and local commercial demand. State notes circulated alongside — and increasingly competed with — Richmond's own paper, which the public trusted less as the war deteriorated.
Criswell CS#122 places this among the later Paterson-printed North Carolina issues.