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50 State Dollars - John Rutledge South Carolina
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| Reverse description | Purple polymer reverse with a panoramic intaglio-style vignette of the Myrtle Beach coastline occupying the central field, hotels and beachgoers rendered along the shoreline. The South Carolina state motto 'Dum spiro spero' is inscribed in italic script at top centre, flanked by two octagonal '50' denomination medallions within guilloche borders. At right, a QR code and linear barcode are printed alongside a star emblem, with the issuer name 'Applied Currency Concepts' at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Dum spiro spero 50 FIFTY Myrtle Beach Applied Currency Concepts |
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Applied Currency Concepts produced these "50 State Dollars" as a privately issued novelty series, not legal tender in any jurisdiction. John Rutledge, one of South Carolina's delegates to the Constitutional Convention and briefly an unconfirmed Chief Justice of the United States — the Senate rejected his appointment in 1795, largely over his public opposition to the Jay Treaty — is an unusual choice for a commemorative issue, given how rarely his name appears outside specialist constitutional histories.
The polymer substrate and barcode/QR security features mimic official banknote conventions, though the issuer has no monetary authority. Collector utility is limited to the series itself.