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2 Dollars South Carolina Rail Road
| Emittent | South Carolina Rail Road Company |
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| Jahr | 1840-1870 |
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| Druckerei | American Bank Note Company, New York, United States |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | 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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| Vorderseitenlegende | 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 |
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The South Carolina Rail Road Company was one of the earliest American railroads to issue its own scrip — not unusual for antebellum transportation companies, which routinely substituted private paper for hard currency in wage payments and small commercial transactions across their operating territories. Corporate scrip of this type occupied a legal grey zone: broadly tolerated but never formally recognized as currency, and subject to sudden refusal by merchants when the issuing company's solvency came into question.
The thirty-year date range reflects either a long print run from a single ABNCo plate or reissues across multiple decades — distinguishing between the two requires examining serial number sequences and any dated signatures, where present.