1873 $1 NOTE FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY

1873 $1 NOTE FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY

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Colorful $1 note dated July 1st, 1873 - Charleston, South Carolina. “Good for the fare of one passenger twenty five miles.”

Large Vignettes of a locomotive and a maiden seated with sugar cane appear on this green and black "Fare Ticket." Signed in ink and “cancelled” with 18 small punch holes along bottom edge; so still good for seven more miles! Numbered (38795) in red.

Intricate, and slightly mesmerizing, green design on back. The very fine detail in the locomotive engraving will engage the eye of any train enthusiast.

The South Carolina Railroad issued these attractive green and black "fare tickets" in the years immediately after the Civil War as a way of getting around prohibitions against circulating privately issued paper money. Several other railroads took similar approaches.  [jet]  [ph:L]

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