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50 Cents State of North Carolina
| Issuer | State of North Carolina |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| Value | 50 Cents (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vertical panel bears the letterpress legend FIFTY CENTS; at centre, an engraved vignette presents a sailing ship under full sail; at upper right, the numeral 50 appears above an ornate engine-turned emblem inscribed BY AUTHORITY OF LAW. The note carries the date JANY 1st, 1863 at Raleigh, with the promise to pay redeemable at the Treasury on or before January 1st, 1866, and the printer's imprint of J.T. Patterson & Co., Augusta, GA at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, left entirely blank. |
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North Carolina's reliance on J.T. Patterson & Co. in Augusta reflects the Confederacy's increasingly desperate printing geography by 1863 — with Richmond under pressure and resources fractured across state lines, several Confederate states contracted with Georgia-based printers to maintain their fractional currency programs. Patterson handled a substantial volume of Southern state and Confederate issues during this period, and quality consistency across the run is uneven.
The Criswell CS#137 designation places this within the state's smaller fractional emissions, which circulated heavily at the local retail level as coin effectively vanished from everyday commerce. Genuine circulation wear on these notes is the rule, not the exception.