LOANS - Troubled Debt Restructurings (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Current	$ 12	$ 16
Past Due Greater Than 30 Days	140	148
Nonaccrual TDRs	25,139	20,865
Total TDRs	25,291	21,029
Commercial, financial and agricultural
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Current	12	16
Past Due Greater Than 30 Days	0	0
Nonaccrual TDRs	24,331	20,865
Total TDRs	24,343	20,881
Real estate – commercial
Financing Receivable, Modifications [Line Items]
Current	0	0
Past Due Greater Than 30 Days	140	148
Nonaccrual TDRs	808	0
Total TDRs	$ 948	$ 148

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Outstanding balance of troubled debt restructurings that are on nonaccrual status.

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Outstanding balance of troubled debt restructurings that are on accrual status and past due greater than 30 days.

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The amount of the outstanding recorded investment related to financing receivables that have been modified by troubled debt restructurings.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 40
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=25495931&loc=d3e18845-111554

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Glossary Recorded Investment
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65880944

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