Bank Notes and Shinplasters - The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic

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Bank Notes and Shinplasters - The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic
epub | 6.34 MB | English | Author :Joshua R. Greenberg | 0812252241 | 2020 | University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

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Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upwards of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. This number does not even include the plethora of counterfeit bills and the countless shinplasters of questionable legality issued by unregulated merchants, firms, and municipalities. Adding to the chaos was the idiosyncratic method for negotiating their value, an often manipulative face-to-face discussion consciously separated from any haggling over the price of the work, goods, or services for sale. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg sho how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions.
Locating evidence of Americans grappling with their money in fiction, correspondence, nepapers, printed ephemera, government...

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