State of North Carolina $10 Paper Money - 1863 dated Obsolete Note - Raleigh, North Carolina

$10. Raleigh, North Carolina. PMG #58 Graded. Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County. It is the second-most populous city in the state, after Charlotte, and the largest city in the Research Triangle metro area. As of the 2020 census, Raleigh had a population of 467,665, making it the 10th-most populous city in the Southeast and the 41st in the United States. Known as the "City of Oaks" for its numerous oak trees, Raleigh covers a land area of 148.54 square miles (384.7 km²).

Raleigh is one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S. and is classified as a sufficiency-level world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The city is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who sponsored the establishment of the Roanoke Colony, known as the "Lost Colony," in present-day Dare County, North Carolina.