Newby On Notes: North Carolina 50c Civil War Issues

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marbury518 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 552 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 03:01 am The black ink has faded to the expected brown for these and whilst both have different prefixes (seen some with no prefix) they both have 32 written on them. Any significance? Paid $15 each and seen them sell for about treble this, so think I did OK...bit of history which made me read up on the civil war. Inflation, promisory notes and difficult to survive at home as well as the battlefied with the blockage preventing imports from my home country. Couple of nice notes and I learnt a bit. Report this Post to the Staff

Jimjumper Valued Member United States 331 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 09:51 am 32 is the serial number. Notice that one has a "J" plate letter and one has an "H" plate letter in the upper left corner. This particular note is a Criswell #149. Shull's book "Southern States Currency" lists the 149 and another 7 varieties (a-h) for this note. North Carolina notes are notorious for the number of varieties usually because of location variations for the serial or the plate number. Also a lot of times the plate letter was handwritten in addition to the serial number. Shulls's book lists this note as a rarity 2 (5000-10000 population) with a value of $20 to $90. There is also a rarity of this note with the red "50 Cts" printed inverted. They are certainly ornate notes considering that they were printed in large quantities towards the end of the war. Report this Post to the Staff
marbury518 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 552 Posts	Posted 02/17/2013 10:53 am Thanks for the info Jimjumper....I just heard that the sheets often had the same serial number and I did notice the different plate letter. The top note looks better I think as it looks less washed out and plenty of colour left, especially the dark sea. I have seen serial numbers for this note way up towards a thousand.. Edited by marbury518 02/17/2013 10:57 am Report this Post to the Staff
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