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75 Cents State of South Carolina
| Issuer | Bank of the State of South Carolina |
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| Year | 1863 |
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| In circulation to | 9 April 1865 |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in red-brown letterpress, with the denomination spelled out in large Gothic script at center reading 'Seventy-five', above a smaller authorization line. A faint ghost image of the obverse Palmetto tree vignette and lettering shows through the thin paper stock as a natural see-through effect. |
| Reverse lettering | Seventy-five Issued under Act Feb., 1863. |
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The Bank of the State of South Carolina was one of the few state-chartered institutions to maintain relatively stable operations into the mid-war period, but by 1863 the Confederacy's fractional currency situation had become acute enough that even established banks were issuing sub-dollar denominations to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation. The 75-cent value is among the less common fractional amounts — most issuers defaulted to 25 and 50 cent notes — suggesting this denomination was filling a specific transactional gap rather than issued as a routine series.
South Carolina state-issued and bank-issued paper from this period deteriorates at the folds due to the wartime paper stock, which was often sourced domestically after Federal blockades cut off better-quality imported supplies.