2 Dollars State of North Carolina

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.