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.

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.

Period.	Country.	Substance used as money.	Authority.

1849	California.	Gold dust by weight, also minute gold coins for small change, coined in private mints.
1855	Australia.	Gold dust by weight.
185-	Communist settlement in Ohio, called "Utopia."	Paper bills, each representing "one hour's labor."	Private information.
1862	United States.	Paper bills a legal tender.	Act of Feb. 25.
1863	North Carolina.	Tenpenny nails, at 5 cents each, for small change.	Anonymous.
1863	Camp at Florence, S. C.	Potatoes for small change.	Yorkville Enquirer.
1863	United States.	Postage-stamps for small change, temporary.
1865	Philadelphia, Pa.	Turnips for small change, temporary and local.	Philadelphia Ledger, April.
1865	United States.	Nickel coins for small change, overvalued.	Act of March 3.

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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