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Currency in Colonial America: Then and Now: Making Money in Early America

Dec 7th, 2004 | By | Category: Currencies
Byron King recounts the history of Currency in Colonial America, discussing early America's lack of real money, the barter system, and how the US handled its monetary woes in the wake of the American Revolution. Since the establishment in 1913 of the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, the U.S. dollar has ...read more