Ship at sea. `50 Cts` overprinted in red. Serial number at right center directly above 1870.
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Obverse lettering
Left border `Fifty Cents`
Top left `Receivable in payment`
Top right `of all public dues.` with `50`
The State of North Carolina
Will pay to Bearer at
the Treasury on or before January 1st 1870
Fifty Cents
(Red Overprint) 50 Cts
Raleigh, Jany 1st 1864
Bottom left `J.T. Paterson & Co. Augusta GA.`
Bottom right `For Pub. Treasury.` with `By authority of
Law`
