Download or read book Bank Notes and Shinplasters written by Joshua R. Greenberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War 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 shows 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, newspapers, printed ephemera, government documents, legal cases, and even on the money itself, Greenberg argues Americans, by necessity, developed the ability to analyze the value of paper financial instruments, assess the strength of banking institutions, and even track legislative changes that might alter the rules of currency circulation. In his examination of the doodles, calculations, political screeds, and commercial stamps that ended up on bank bills, he connects the material culture of cash to financial, political, and intellectual history. The book demonstrates that the shift from state-regulated banks and private shinplaster producers to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era led to the erasure of the skill, knowledge, and lived experience with banking that informed debates over economic policy. The end result, Greenberg writes, has been a diminished public understanding of how currency and the financial sector operate in our contemporary era, from the 2008 recession to the rise of Bitcoin.
Download or read book Michigan Obsolete Bank and Scrip Notes of the 19th Century National Bank Notes 1863 1935 written by Wallace Lee and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and innovative book is more than a price and identification guide to Michigan's early banking system; it demonstrates the state's evolution from pioneer settlements for prosperous communities. &break;&break;This one-of-a-kind is filled with more than 2,200 rarely seen images from the foremost Michigan bank note collection. In addition, this reference gives collectors: &break;&break;Detailed listings organized alphabetically by name of the issuing institution, for easier identification and thorough regional research &break;&break;Additional historical information about early banking processes in Michigan, development of the state, and detailed guidelines for accurately identifying Michigan's obsolete and national bank notes &break;&break;Thoroughly researched value estimates for each listing
Download or read book National Bank Notes written by Don C. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money written by George S. Cuhaj and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is only one guide that gives you complete details, photographs and current values of U.S. currency, and this is that book! Packed with 750 color photos of notes and more than 10,000 listings for U.S. paper money issued between 1812 and the present, no other book can compare to the comprehensiveness of this guide. Among the notes represented in this book are: • Large and small currency • Silver and gold certificates • National bank notes by state • Pre-Civil War Treasury notes • Fractional currency and military payment certificates • Encased postage stamps Put the 30th edition of this popular paper money book to use for you. You and your collection will be better for it.
Download or read book National Bank Notes written by Don C. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy written by Eric Lomazoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are “necessary” for exercising its other powers. Our standard account of the national bank controversy, however, is incomplete. The controversy was much more dynamic than a two-sided debate over a single constitutional provision and was shaped as much by politics as by law. With Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy, Eric Lomazoff offers a far more robust account of the constitutional politics of national banking between 1791 and 1832. During that time, three forces—changes within the Bank itself, growing tension over federal power within the Republican coalition, and the endurance of monetary turmoil beyond the War of 1812 —drove the development of our first major debate over the scope of federal power at least as much as the formal dimensions of the Constitution or the absence of a shared legal definition for the word “necessary.” These three forces—sometimes alone, sometimes in combination—repeatedly reshaped the terms on which the Bank’s constitutionality was contested. Lomazoff documents how these three dimensions of the polity changed over time and traces the manner in which they periodically led federal officials to adjust their claims about the Bank’s constitutionality. This includes the emergence of the Coinage Clause—which gives Congress power to “coin money, regulate the value thereof”—as a novel justification for the institution. He concludes the book by explaining why a more robust account of the national bank controversy can help us understand the constitutional basis for modern American monetary politics.
Download or read book On the Constitutionality of a National Bank written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Coventry House Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1791, The First Bank of the United States was a financial innovation proposed and supported by Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. Establishment of the bank was part of a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power, along with a federal mint and excise taxes. Hamilton believed that a national bank was necessary to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, and to improve financial order, clarity, and precedence of the United States government under the newly enacted Constitution. Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was a founding father of the United States, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the Constitution, the founder of the American financial system, and the founder of the Federalist Party. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the primary author of the economic policies for George Washington’s administration. Hamilton took the lead in the funding of the states’ debts by the federal government, the establishment of a national bank, and forming friendly trade relations with Britain. He led the Federalist Party, created largely in support of his views; he was opposed by the Democratic Republican Party, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, which despised Britain and feared that Hamilton’s policies of a strong central government would weaken the American commitment to Republicanism.
Download or read book Paper Money of the United States written by Arthur L. Friedberg and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of American Currency written by Sumner Sumner and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory of Free Banking written by George A. Selgin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book The Banknote Book written by Owen W. Linzmayer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1: Abyssinia French Sudan
Download or read book A Guide Book of United States Paper Money 6th Edition written by Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedburg and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated sixth edition of A Guide Book of United States Paper Money includes an engaging history of the paper currency of the United States. Every federal note"€"from the ultra rare Demand Notes of 1861 to the lunch money in our wallets today"€"is described and cataloged in detail. Fascinating narrative captures the romance and history of American paper money, and also explores recent developments in the hobby and market, including the newest $100 bill and proposed redesigns of our currency with the portraits of famous American women. The book combines the hobby-standard Friedberg numbering system with retail values and hundreds of high-resolution, full-color photos. With updated and revised content, the sixth edition joins the critically acclaimed first through fifth editions, which have solidly established this book's reputation as a popular and best-selling hobby reference. Features include: More than 20,000 market values; quantities printed; all federal series, plus Fractional Cur
Download or read book A Guide Book of United States Paper Money written by Arthur L. Friedberg and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immerse yourself in the romance and beauty of nearly 150 years of American currency. It all comes alive in A GUIDE BOOK OF UNITED STATES PAPER MONEY, fifth edition. An engaging history book and a comprehensive catalog of valuations rolled into one, this guide covers all federal series issued from the Civil War to the present day. Paper-money collectors will appreciate the depth of the research, and American history buffs will find the narrative fascinating. Whether you're new to the hobby or a longtime collector or dealer, you will benefit from the data provided for each currency series. Market valuations are compiled from recent sale and auction records, real-world analysis of the paper-money field, and the knowledge of recognized hobby leaders. Hundreds of notes are pictured in crisp, full-color detail, face and back--dramatically illustrating the nation's history and its ideals." -- page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Standard Catalog of National Bank Notes written by John T. Hickman and published by Krause Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions written by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an in-depth overview of the Federal Reserve System, including information about monetary policy and the economy, the Federal Reserve in the international sphere, supervision and regulation, consumer and community affairs and services offered by Reserve Banks. Contains several appendixes, including a brief explanation of Federal Reserve regulations, a glossary of terms, and a list of additional publications.
Download or read book Brief History of the Gold Standard GS in the United States written by Craig K. Elwell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. monetary system is based on paper money backed by the full faith and credit of the fed. gov't. The currency is neither valued in, backed by, nor officially convertible into gold or silver. Through much of its history, however, the U.S. was on a metallic standard of one sort or another. On occasion, there are calls to return to such a system. Such calls are usually accompanied by claims that gold or silver backing has provided considerable economic benefits in the past. This report reviews the history of the GS in the U.S. It clarifies the dates during which the GS was used, the type of GS in operation at the various times, and the statutory changes used to alter the GS and eventually end it. It is not a discussion of the merits of the GS. A print on demand oub.
Download or read book Freedman s Savings and Trust Company Charter and By laws written by Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
