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4 Dollars - State of North Carolina Replica
| Issuer | State of North Carolina |
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| Year | 1778 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on aged cream paper with decorative border of repeating ornamental type. The upper portion bears the colony name and denomination in bold display type, with the statutory text below authorizing the bearer to receive Four Spanish milled Dollars in gold or silver per the Act of August 1778. A motto in the lower left reads 'A lesson to arbitrary Kings, and wicked Ministers,' with two manuscript signatures and the word COPY overprinted. |
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| Reverse description | Plain aged cream paper with faint bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress text visible, otherwise blank. |
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North Carolina issued $4 denominations during the Revolutionary War period as part of its colonial and early state currency emissions — an odd face value that reflects the practical arithmetic of the time, when notes were often structured around Spanish milled dollars and the need to make change in a mixed-currency economy. The $4 denomination appears in the April 2, 1776 and subsequent 1778 emissions authorized by the state legislature.
This is a replica. The originals were printed locally under difficult wartime conditions, and genuine survivors show considerable variation in ink quality and paper stock.