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2 Dollars South Carolina Rail Road
| Issuer | South Carolina Rail Road Company |
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| Year | 1840-1870 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars (2 USD) |
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| Obverse description | The face is arranged in a horizontal format with multiple vignettes and counter elements. At far left, a circular vignette shows a young woman reading; at center-left, an orange panel bears a portrait of Abraham Lincoln; flanking a central vignette of a steam locomotive travelling right are two oval counters each bearing the numeral 2. A large red TWO counter occupies the lower center, with TWO repeated along the bottom border. Circular TWO counters appear at upper center and lower left, and a rectangular TWO panel is positioned at right. The note is printed by the American Bank Note Co., New York. |
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| Obverse lettering | TWO Office of the South Carolina Rail Road CHARLESTON S.C. _______18___ Receivable as TWO DOLLAR in all payments to the South Carolina Rail Road Company TWO American Bank Note Co. New York |
| Reverse description | The back is dominated by a large ornate red letterpress overprint of the word TWO in elaborate interlocking serif capitals occupying the lower center of the note, with show-through of the obverse vignettes visible through the thin paper stock. The surrounding field is plain with faint ghost impressions of the face design visible in green. |
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