50 State Dollars - John Rutledge South Carolina

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.