4 Dollars Bank of the State of South Carolina

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.