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25 Cents State of South Carolina
| Issuer | Bank of the State of South Carolina |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Size | 98 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | The Bank of the STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 25 25 WILL PAY BEARER ON DEMAND "IN CURRENT FUNDS" TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Feb. 1, 1863. For Cashier. |
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| Reverse lettering | Twenty-five Issued under Act Feb., 1863. |
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The Bank of the State of South Carolina was one of the few state-chartered institutions in the Confederacy that maintained genuine public confidence throughout most of the war — partly because the state government stood directly behind it. This fractional note was issued specifically to address the near-total disappearance of small silver coinage from circulation after 1861, a problem acute enough that streetcar fares and small retail transactions had become logistically difficult across the South.
Columbia-printed Confederate fractionals from 1863 are often found with uneven ink strike, a consequence of wartime supply degradation rather than careless production.