قراءة كتاب Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890
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Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890
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Paper bills a legal tender. Irving. 1574 Holland. Pasteboard bills, representative. Dic. of Dates. Uncertain Iceland. Dried fish. Anonymous. Uncertain Newfoundland. Codfish, dried. Anonymous. Uncertain Norway and Greenland. Seal skins and blubber. Anonymous. Uncertain Hindostan and parts of Africa. Cowry shells. Jacob, 372. Uncertain North America Indian tribes. Agate, carnelian, jasper, lead, copper, gold, silver, terra-cotta, mica, pearl, lignite, coal, bone, shells, chalcedony, wampumpeag, etc. Anonymous. Uncertain Oriental pastoral tribes. Cattle, grain, etc. Anonymous. Uncertain Abyssinia. Salt. Anonymous. Uncertain China and India. Rice. Anonymous. Uncertain India. Paper bills. Patterson, p. 13. Uncertain China. Pieces of silk cloth. Ibid. Uncertain Africa. Strips of cotton cloth. Ibid. Not stated. Wooden tallies or checks. Ibid.Period following the discovery of the American mines.
Period. | Country. | Substance used as money. | Authority. |
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A.D. 1631 | Massachusetts. | Corn a legal-tender at market prices. | Macgreggor. |
1635 | Massachusetts. | Musket-balls. | Anonymous. |
1690 | Massachusetts. | Paper bills, colonial notes. | Macgreggor. |
1694 | England. | Bank-notes. | McCulloch. |
1700 | Sweden. | Copper and iron coins. | Voltaire's Charles XII. |
1702 | South Carolina. | Colonial notes. | Macgreggor. |
1712 | South Carolina. | Bank notes. | Ibid. |
1716 | France. | Interconvertible paper bills a legal-tender. | Murray. |
1723 | Pennsylvania. | Paper bills, colonial notes. | Macgreggor. |
1732 | Maryland. | Indian corn a legal-tender at 23d. per bushel. | Anonymous. |
1732 | Maryland. | Tobacco a legal-tender at 1d. per pound. | Anonymous. |
1776 | Scotland. | Tenpenny nails for small change. | Adam Smith. |
1785 | Frankland, State of (now part of North Carolina). | Linen at 3s. 6d. per yard, whisky at 2s. 6d. per gallon, and peltry as legal-tender. | Wheeler's History of North Carolina, 94. |
1810-1840 | All commercial countries. | Great era of bank-paper bills. | |
1826 | Russia. | Platinum coins (discontinued in 1845). | App. Encyc. |
1847 | Mexico, parts of. | Cocoa beans; and at Castle of Perote, soap. | Anonymous. |
Period following the openings of California and Australia.
An analysis of this table will show how carefully even the most primitive communities guarded against a too restricted money volume.
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