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2 Dollars State of North Carolina
| Issuer | State of North Carolina |
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| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a dark olive-green ink on cream-coloured cotton paper, with the issuing authority legend arched along the top border within a repetitive ornamental frame. A central oval vignette encloses an architectural scene, flanked at left and right by circular guilloche medallions bearing the numeral '2'. Below the vignette, the denomination 'STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA / TWO DOLLARS' appears in bold block lettering, with the promise-to-pay text, place, and date of issue inscribed beneath in letterpress, and the receivability clause running along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ISSUED UNDER ACT RATIFIED 20TH DECR 1862 THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Will pay TWO DOLLARS to Bearer at the Treasury on or before 1st Jan. 1866 Raleigh, January 1st, 1863 RECEIVABLE IN PAYMENT OF ALL PUBLIC DUES |
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North Carolina printed its own currency throughout the Civil War, operating largely independently of Richmond's Confederate Treasury. By 1863 the state had issued millions of dollars in notes to fund troop pay, wartime infrastructure, and increasingly desperate supply procurement — the sheer volume meant quality control suffered, and many surviving examples show crude alignment and uneven ink coverage that reflects the limitations of wartime domestic printing rather than damage in circulation.
Criswell CS#131 sits in a well-documented series, but authentication still matters: North Carolina notes were counterfeited during the war, and crude originals and crude fakes can be genuinely difficult to separate without examining paper and ink under magnification.