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100 Miles Charlotte Columbia and Augusta Rail Road Company
| Issuer | Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail Road Company |
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| Year | 1873 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail Road Company Columbia, S.C. October 1st 1873 Good for the fare of two passengers One Hundred Miles |
| Reverse description | Entirely engraved in green, the reverse carries two large circular guilloche rosettes with numeral 10 at centre, flanking a tall ornate lathe-work panel of interlocking floral and geometric engine-turned patterns; printer's imprint appears beneath each rosette. |
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The Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail Road was one of several Southern lines that emerged from the wreckage of Reconstruction-era finance, stitching together pre-war charters and half-built track with Northern capital. Corporate scrip of this kind filled a genuine need — coin was scarce across the postbellum South, and railroad companies became de facto issuers of small-value currency for laborers, suppliers, and contractors along the right-of-way.
American Bank Note Company's involvement gave the piece a security pedigree well beyond its functional purpose. The CC&A was absorbed into the Richmond and Danville system in 1878, just five years after this scrip was issued.