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5 Dollars The Bank of South Carolina
| Issuer | Bank of South Carolina |
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| Year | 1855 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged cream paper stock, with a large red letterpress underprint reading FIVE centrally positioned, visible as a mirror image through the sheet. |
| Reverse lettering | FIVE |
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The Bank of South Carolina, chartered in 1802, was one of the state's most conservatively managed antebellum institutions — it survived the Panic of 1837 without suspending specie payments, a distinction very few Southern banks could claim. Notes from its mid-1850s issues reflect that reputation: the bank maintained tight circulation relative to its specie reserves, which means genuine over-issue examples are essentially unknown.
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson produced this plate during their final decade before merger into the American Bank Note Company in 1858.