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2 Dollars South Carolina Rail Road

2 Dollars (South Carolina Rail Road) - obverse2 Dollars (South Carolina Rail Road) - reverse

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Features

Issuer United States
Issuing entity South Carolina Railroad Company
Period Federal republic (1776-date)
Type Local banknotes
Years 1840-1870
Value 2 Dollars (2 USD)
Currency Dollar (1785-date)
Composition Paper
Size 185 × 78 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
412835
References SH# 666
Jeff Shevlin, William D. Hyder; 2018. So-Called Dollars from the Pacific Coast Expositions: 1894-1962. Self-published, Carson City, Nevada, United States.

Obverse

Circular motifs with TWO inside at top and bottom left. Rectangular motif with TWO at right. Oval motifs with 2 to the left and right of a central vignette depicting a train heading to the right. At far left, a round vignette depicting a young woman reading. At center left, a orange pocket with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Center bottom, a large red TWO pocket. TWO repeated along bottom border.

Scripts: Latin, Latin (cursive), Latin (Fraktur blackletter)

Lettering:
TWO Office of the South Carolina Rail Road
CHARLESTON S.C. _______18___
Receivable as TWO DOLLAR in all payments
to the South Carolina Rail Road Company
TWO American Bank Note Co. New York

Reverse

Blank.

Printer

American Banknote Corporation (American Bank Note Company), United States (1795-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1840-1870) 

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