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4 Dollars Bank of the State of South Carolina
| Issuer | Bank of the State of South Carolina |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Value | 4 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | The President Directors of the BANK OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Will pay FOUR DOLLARS to bearer on demand at their office in Charleston Charleston ____________1862 Bald Adams & Co. New York |
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| Reverse lettering | DABNEY, MORGAN, & CO The Pres`t & Dir`s of the BANK of the STATE of SO. CA. PROVED C. H. SIMONTON, Referee |
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By 1862, the Bank of the State of South Carolina was issuing currency under conditions that made its New York printer an awkward fact. Bald, Adams & Co. had produced notes for Southern institutions well before secession, and existing plate relationships were simply continued — or more accurately, the plates themselves were already in Confederate hands or reproduced locally, since a Union blockade made direct shipment from New York impossible by this point. The exact logistics of how these notes reached South Carolina remain a genuine open question in Confederate currency scholarship.
The $4 denomination was a Southern peculiarity, designed to produce $1 change from a $5 Confederate note.