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| Issuer | State of North Carolina |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar 1 USD = EUR 0.85 |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in black on plain paper, with elaborate scrollwork vignettes flanking the left and right borders. The issuer title in large display lettering arcs across the upper field, with the promise-to-pay text in italic script below. A central guilloche medallion encloses the numeral "1", and a rectangular panel bearing "ONE DOLLAR" is set at centre-bottom, with place and date inscriptions to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, with no printed design, text, or ornamental elements; the paper surface shows only natural aging tones. |
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| Comments |
North Carolina's 1862 state emissions were produced locally under considerable constraint — by that point in the war, access to quality paper and experienced engravers had become genuinely difficult, and the state treasury was printing notes largely to cover immediate military and administrative expenditure rather than to sustain any conventional banking function. The Raleigh printing operations during this period are associated with multiple printers working under state contract, and the typography and plate quality vary noticeably across denominations and dates.
This is a replica. Collector value is nominal; the interest here is documentary.